Vista Ultimate and Outlook 2007 mailbox location

[toddah]

I have a laptop that had Vista Ultimate installed on the C drive and Office
2007 setup on the D drive. the C partition was formatted and I need to
recover the mailbox from Outlook 2007. I cannot locate where Outlook keeps
the Mailbox files. I see it talks about PST files but even on my own system I
cannot locate a .PST file using the same setups.
I have looked inside c:\users\*username*\*.pst and found no PST files at
all. I have searched the C and D drives for *.pst and found nothing.
I am looking at my own functional laptop and cannot find the default
location where Outlook 2007 keeps mail, contacts and such.
Can anyone help?

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[toddah]

Oh I forgot, This is a standalone version no excahnge server involved

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a laptop that had Vista Ultimate installed on the C drive and
Office 2007 setup on the D drive. the C partition was formatted and I
need to recover the mailbox from Outlook 2007. I cannot locate where
Outlook keeps the Mailbox files. I see it talks about PST files but
even on my own system I cannot locate a .PST file using the same
setups.

There's no one place that Outlook uses to store PSTs. It will create them
wherever you tell it to create them. The default location, however, is
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Outlook. Out that path into Windows Explorer and
click Go.

I have looked inside c:\users\*username*\*.pst and found no PST files
at all. I have searched the C and D drives for *.pst and found
nothing.

Unless you configure Windows to show those hidden folders, you'll never see
them and search won't find them.

 

[DL]

The outlook default data file location is a hidden file, you have to search
to include hidden
However if you formatted the C drive you will have lost all your information
/ Data

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
a.. Make sure you include hidden and system files and folders when
searching for pst-file
b.. By default it is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
For Windows Vista the default is
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\
c.. You can also locate the file by using
Rightclick the root folder (probably Outlook Today)-> Properties-> button
Advanced-> field Filename

 

[toddah]

THanks for the info.
So in order to figure out what I am looking for I am going to try and find
my currently running outlook mailbox on a laptop running fine.
However when I search my currently running laptop (not the formatted one)
even with show hidden files and folders, show well known file types turned on
and searching for *.pst I find nothing.

I have Windows Vista Business /SP1 on a C: partition
I have Office 2007 Professional installed on D:\program files\Microsoft
Office\
All Office settings are default except the install path was D: and not C:

With show hidden and show well known I find nothing under outlook.pst or
..pst or outlook. that looks like a pst file. I am so confused.

 

[DL]

The default location of the data files, in Vista, is shown in my origonal
response.
If you cannot browse, within Explorer, to that location then it is a Vista
permissions issue
It matters not that Office was installed to a different HD/partition the
data files are by default installed to C - Though the user can change that -

 

[toddah]

Thanks DL,
I found them on my operational laptop so now I know what / where I should be
looking for on the recovery project.

 

[DL]

If you configure OL on the repaired PC do NOT overwrite any data files when
you copy your data file.
The data file does *not* have to be located at the default location. Many
people locate it in their Documents Folder, for ease of backups