March 10th, 2010, 11:25 PM
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Finding Outlook.pst
Brian - thank you for the detail in your response. Joz.
"Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
"Joz" wrote in message
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I did a search for Outlook.pst, and the search engine found this:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
You must be using Windows XP.
This is more simply written %UserProfile%\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?
Underneath your username folder is both "Local Settings" and "Application
Data". There is also an "Application Data" folder below "Local Settings".
Thus, there are both
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook and
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. This
latter folder has a shorter path %AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook. Your PST is in
the first of these two folders. The second path contains other Outlook data
files.
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.
You cannot open the PST with Windows Explorer, only Outlook. To make a backup
of it., just copy the PST to another folder, say on an external disk drive or
a flash memory stick, without opening it. Make sure Outlook is closed before
trying to copy the PST.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
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