backing up Outlook

[Louis]

How do you back up Outlook to a disk?

Louis

 

[Louis]

-----Original Message-----
If you mean your data, you find the pst file and copy it to disk. If you
mean the actual application, I don't think there is any way to do that
unless you got OL on a CD the way MS used to sell it.
jor



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Could you give me step by step instructions on backing up

to a disk?

Louis

 

[Louis]

-----Original Message-----
You didn't mention which version you're using, but if it

happens to be either Outlook 2000 or 2002, see this
article for an easy solution:

Outlook 2002/2000 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2002/pfbackup.aspx

Otherwise, you'll have to find the location of your

current Personal Folders file (it has a pst extension) and
copy it to another location. It may be too large to fit on
a floppy disc. Note that it is probably a hidden file so
you'll have to change your Folder & File settings to find
it.

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Snarky Parker
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I'm using Microsoft Outlook 2002

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Rather than mess with your original folders, I would recommend first making
a backup to your hard drive. Use File => Export & Import and export your
folders to an Outlook pst file. You can create the file in My Documents.
Then, when the export is completed copy that file to a CD using your
CD-burning program. You will be allowed to filter out items to not backup
and can do incremental backups later to the same file.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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