How to Restore the Outlook Cache- autocomplete email addresses

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To those IT support guys who are now busy with WIN7 migration, you must be facing this problem after migrating user profile to a new laptop. However, if you want to restore the cache of outlook, please follow the below steps:

  • Log in to the old device with the user credential from which you want to restore the cache
  • From Run command type %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook and press enter
  • Copy the file with .nk2 extension
  • Log in to the new device with the user credential to which you want to restore the cache
  • From Run command type %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook and press enter
  • Close outlook and rename the existing .nk2 file
  • Copy the old .nk2 file and rename it as it shows in the new device
  • Run Outlook