March 10th, 2010, 11:26 PM
posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
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Finding Outlook.pst
Anne, thank you for the extra info. Joz
"Anne" wrote:
This is the easy way: Within Outlook, go to File (from file menu) , data file
management, highlight your pst file and click open the folder. If you want to
delete or move the existing pst file, while the folder is open, close
outlook. This leaves you in the folder. Since Outlook is closed you can copy
it to somewhere else.
There is an outlook data backup program available
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
"Joz" wrote:
I did a search for Outlook.pst, and the search engine found this:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
Questions:
1: when I try to find that path after %username% (using the actual name),
there is no Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ , so the only way to find the
Contacts file is to always do a search. How can I find the
Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ so I don't have to run a search?
2: My purpose in finding it was for backup purposes. So I ended up doing a
Copy/ Paste from my Search to my external backup. It seems to have worked,
but when I try to open the .pst file, I get a message that Windows can't open
the file. I wanted to open it in the backup to make sure I could access the
Contact list.
Any help would be appreciated
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