Backup of emails & address book in 'My Documents Folder'

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Mark Sayer

Hi,

Please could someone advise me. I would like to be able
to store all my emails (sent & received) along with the
address book within a folder named 'email' held in
the 'My Documents' folder. This would enable me to save
just the single folder to cd-rom without hassle.

I'm running Outlook 2000 on Windows XP Pro.


Kind Regards

Mark
 
|Hi,
|
|Please could someone advise me. I would like to be able
|to store all my emails (sent & received) along with the
|address book within a folder named 'email' held in
|the 'My Documents' folder. This would enable me to save
|just the single folder to cd-rom without hassle.
|
|I'm running Outlook 2000 on Windows XP Pro.
|
|
|Kind Regards
|
|Mark
|
just create the folder and move your pst file to it with Outlook closed.
When you next open Outlook it will complain that it can't find the pst
file. Just navigate to the folder you created.

HTH
 
Copy your pst-file to the location you want when Outlook is closed. In
Control Panel-> Mail you can add the pst-file, configure the it to be your
default delivery location and delete the connection to the pst-file on your
old location.

When you start Outlook it will say that the default location has changed and
that's going to update some location shortcut. Press "Yes" and Outlook
should start with the pst-file on the new location.

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Yep, as it's also stored in the pst-file.

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Thank you very much, v helpfull.

Would it cover 'Favourites'??? as i'd also like to backup
internet favourites.....
 
I have a similar question, but I use the Office XP version of Outlook Express. And I don't want to change the location where my email is saved by default, if I don't have to. I have more than 2,500 emails in my outbox and another 2,500+ in my inboxes. I would like to be able to COPY all of them at once to a CD disk, or to a file in My Docs then to a CD disk. I just want to back up, or COPY, to another location so I can clean out my email boxes to allow for new email to come in. Lastly, if your answer refers to a "pst" file, where do I find this file? And what is its exact name? I did a search for "pst" in my C drive, and found things like "SCANPST". Please help.
 
I have a similar question, but I use the Office XP version of Outlook Express. And I don't want to change the location where my email is saved by default, if I don't have to. I have more than 2,500 emails in my outbox and another 2,500+ in my inboxes. I would like to be able to COPY all of them at once to a CD disk, or to a file in My Docs then to a CD disk. I just want to back up, or COPY, to another location so I can clean out my email boxes to allow for new email to come in. Lastly, if your answer refers to a "pst" file, where do I find this file? And what is its exact name? I did a search for "pst" in my C drive, and found things like "SCANPST". Please help.
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Outlook Express, which is distributed with Internet Explorer, is a
completely different program from Outlook, which is component of
Microsoft Office.

Outlook Express does not have .pst files.

It sounds as if you have both Outlook & Outlook Express on your system
but do *not* try to follow the advice for backing up Outlook to back
up Outlook Express. It won't work.
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No, the Favorites folder is located somewhere else. By default this is;
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Favorites

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