{"id":304,"date":"2014-06-28T16:26:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2019-02-07T04:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:39:45","slug":"transfer-outlook-2010-auto-complete-to-new-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Outlook 2010 Auto-Complete to new computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.itsupportguides.com\/office-2010\/transfer-outlook-2010-auto-complete-to-new-computer\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itsupportguides.com\/office-2010\/transfer-outlook-2010-auto-complete-to-new-computer\/\">http:\/\/www.itsupportguides.com\/office-2010\/transfer-outlook-2010-auto-complete-to-new-computer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MSOutlook2010-AutoComplete1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsupportguides.com\/images\/stories\/MSOutlook2010-AutoComplete1.png\" width=\"665\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outlook has an function to suggest email addresses as you start to type them in, commonly known as the \u2018auto-complete\u2019 feature.<\/p>\n<p>It works by keeping a list of people you\u2019ve emailed so when you go to write a new email address and start filling out the \u2018to\u2019, \u2018cc\u2019 or \u2018bcc\u2019 field it will suggest the similar email addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Previous versions of Outlook stored this list in a file called <strong>\u2018Outlook.nk2\u2032<\/strong> however Outlook 2010 now uses an XML file called <strong>\u2018stream_autocomplete\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Transferring the file to a new computer or user profile is a simply copy and paste process:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Note: Outlook needs to be closed<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First you need to find the file. The location may be different depending on if you\u2019re using Windows XP or Windows 7\/Vista:\n<ol>\n<li>Windows XP -&#160; C:Documents and Settings%username%Application DataMicrosoftOutlookRoamCache <\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 \/ Vista \u2013 C:Users%username%AppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlookRoamCache<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>The file will start with <strong>\u2018Stream_autocomplete\u2019<\/strong> followed by a string of hex numbers <\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MSOutlook2010-AutoComplete1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsupportguides.com\/images\/stories\/MSOutlook2010-AutoComplete1.png\" width=\"665\" height=\"437\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Copy the file to a safe location, e.g. a USB drive <\/li>\n<li>On the new computer or user open the same folder location and paste in the file:\n<ol>\n<li>Windows XP -&#160; C:Documents and Settings%username%Application DataMicrosoftOutlookRoamCache <\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 \/ Vista \u2013 C:Users%username%AppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlookRoamCache<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open Outlook and check the the auto-complete has been successfully transferred.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.itsupportguides.com\/office-2010\/transfer-outlook-2010-auto-complete-to-new-computer\/ &#160; Outlook has an function to suggest email addresses as you start to type them in, commonly known as the \u2018auto-complete\u2019 feature. It works by keeping a list of people you\u2019ve emailed so when you go to write a new email address and start filling out the \u2018to\u2019, \u2018cc\u2019 or \u2018bcc\u2019 field it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}