Except for notes. For some reason, the Outlook notes would not, no way, no how, transfer to the Pocket PC. Everything else was able to sync with perfection. It was just the notes that wouldn't transfer.

After doing some research, Steve found this tech note: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q305/5/44.ASP.

It turns out that when notes (and to be clear here, we're talking about the little pop-up guys, not the Lotus Notes product) don't synchronize, it's often a symptom of a corrupted .PST file.

The tech note goes into most of the details you'll need. There are two things to keep in mind. You're better off using Import to move the data from the old PST to the new PST that the tech note suggests. That's because, if you just drag and drop items, you may also be moving the corruption from the old PST to the new PST along with the data. Using import will avoid that.

Also, don't forget that you're likely to need to select your new PST file from the Outlook Accounts menu or from the Mail control panel and then disable the old one.

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