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Where is the backup utility for Outlook 2010?
My Documents\Outlook Files....
-- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon "Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Where is the backup utility for Outlook 2010?
In article , MVP Ben M. Schorr
wrote: My Documents\Outlook Files.... Hi Ben, What's that an answer to? If it's "Where did Outlook hide my stuff?" it's not correct, at least not for all installations. I've just been taming it on three or four systems and on none of them did it put the PST there by default. Go figure. |
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Where is the backup utility for Outlook 2010?
That's the default location for Outlook 2010. If you upgraded from
something else the file might still be in the old location, I suppose. If you have a system that is still locating the PST files in the old %user%\local settings\application data\microsoft\outlook location then I'd probably move them to My Documents\Outlook Files just to make things easier in the future. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon "Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message ... In article , MVP Ben M. Schorr wrote: My Documents\Outlook Files.... Hi Ben, What's that an answer to? If it's "Where did Outlook hide my stuff?" it's not correct, at least not for all installations. I've just been taming it on three or four systems and on none of them did it put the PST there by default. Go figure. |
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Where is the backup utility for Outlook 2010?
In article , MVP Ben M. Schorr wrote:
That's the default location for Outlook 2010. If you upgraded from something else the file might still be in the old location, I suppose. That sounds like a good possibility. Between beta and RTM, I've got a couple copies of 2010 installed ... both look in the old location (me\documents\outlook\outlook.pst) for the data file. One's an upgrade over 2003, so we can ignore that. The other would have been a fresh install of RC1, but it still looks there. Did things change betw RC1 and RTM, maybe? If you have a system that is still locating the PST files in the old %user%\local settings\application data\microsoft\outlook location then I'd probably move them to My Documents\Outlook Files just to make things easier in the future. I've got my own way of storing stuff that's worked well for me for ten years or more. Outlook will adapt to it or leave the building in disgrace. ;-) |
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Where is the backup utility for Outlook 2010?
Well, you can put the PST files wherever you like, of course. Outlook
doesn't mind, you'll just have to tell it where they are. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon "Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message ... In article , MVP Ben M. Schorr wrote: That's the default location for Outlook 2010. If you upgraded from something else the file might still be in the old location, I suppose. That sounds like a good possibility. Between beta and RTM, I've got a couple copies of 2010 installed ... both look in the old location (me\documents\outlook\outlook.pst) for the data file. One's an upgrade over 2003, so we can ignore that. The other would have been a fresh install of RC1, but it still looks there. Did things change betw RC1 and RTM, maybe? If you have a system that is still locating the PST files in the old %user%\local settings\application data\microsoft\outlook location then I'd probably move them to My Documents\Outlook Files just to make things easier in the future. I've got my own way of storing stuff that's worked well for me for ten years or more. Outlook will adapt to it or leave the building in disgrace. ;-) |
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Where is the backup utility for Outlook 2010?
In article , MVP Ben
M. Schorr wrote: Well, you can put the PST files wherever you like, of course. Outlook doesn't mind, you'll just have to tell it where they are. :-) And be prepared to arm-wrestle with it a bit. Seriously, if you're accustomed to a truly well-written piece of software, Outlook's file management is a mess. |
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