How to customize the display name of PST file?

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Have you ever thought of making any PST file easily recognizable by changing its default name? If not then try it out to distinguish your data file from others. Default display name of the Personal Folders file (.pst) is Personal Folders. Customizing display name of the PST file helps you easily execute when you deal with many PST file.

To customize the display name of the PST file, follow these steps:

  • In the Navigation Pane, right-click Personal Folders, and then click Properties for “Personal Folders”.
  • Click Advanced.
  • In the Name box, type a name that is meaningful to you, such as Greta’s Outlook Data.
  • Click OK twice.
  • In the Navigation Pane, you see a top folder with the name that you entered. Now you can quickly distinguish your data file from any others.

This way you can change the display name of the PST file and distinguish it from others. There are times when your PST file gets damaged or corrupt and you need to recover emails and other folders from it. Kernel for Outlook is such PST repair software that helps you in such situations, as it repairs and recovers emails from the corrupt PST file quickly and precisely.