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RobertW1971
Jan 17, 2026Copper Contributor
Migrating Outlook folders from old to new laptop Windows 11
Hi, How do I get my old Outlook folders of emails from my previous laptop onto my new laptop? December 2025 I have bought a new DELL 16 laptop Windows 11 and MS Office Personal 2021. Old laptop ...
Jan 25, 2026
Much depends on the account type that you are using on your old laptop. It sounds like this was a POP3 account. In that case, your data is stored in a pst-file.
To find out the location of your pst-file use;
File-> Account Settings-> Account Settings...- tab: Data Files
Close Outlook and copy over the pst-file to your new computer. Make sure you do it to a location to which you have read/write access and that it isn't a location which is synced with Cloud Storage such as OneDrive or Dropbox.
Then on your new computer, you can connect to your pst-file via;
File-> Open & Export-> Open Outlook Data File...
For more details, step-by-step instructions and screenshots see;
Backup and Restore all Outlook data - Robert 365