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Old May 7th, 2010, 04:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc
Steve Rindsberg
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Default Where is the backup utility for Outlook 2010?

In article , Bob I wrote:
Just because it isn't accomplished using the method you want, doesn't
mean it isn't happening.

Please read the following
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...d-restore.aspx


But is it smart enough to find your Outlook PST or do you once again need to know
where Outlook has squirreled it away?

To say nothing of how you find a *.PST file when Windows defaults to *hiding* the
.PST extension from you and in some versions, at least, won't even cough it up
during a search for *.PST when the extension's hidden?

I have to agree with Jimmy. I've been using computers happily enough since the
early 80s. I've written software for most of that time, either for my own use and
commercially and can navigate the file system in Windows, MSDOS, Mac and *nix more
or less proficiently. I've just begun using Outlook in the last few months and
though its great in many respects, I've found it to be the most user-hostile app
I've ever done battle with when it comes to backing up and moving its files
around, to say nothing of getting it to put the fool things where *I* want them to
go today, not where it thinks I need to put them.

It really does want a Backup or at the very least, a simple File, Save As command.

Yes, there's one of the latter on the menu. It lights up and grays out according
to no pattern that I've yet discerned. I'm sure this will all be revealed in time
too. But why should it not be simple?