Thanks for replying!

I am primarily interested in backing up My Contacts to a folder in My
Documents. As I explained previously, I had to do a complete restore and
somehow lost contacts that were on my external Maxtor drive and I dont want
that to happen again. I can't open from "within" Outlook on the external
drive (or if I can, I don't know how to do that), so I don't want another
bad episode of losing information again...

So I will settle for backing up the contacts to my docs!

Terri


"F. H. Muffman" wrote in message
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Ummm.. Maybe?

Let's back up.

What *exactly* do you want to do?
Do you want to back up *all* PSTs?
Do you want to back up a *certain* PST(s)?

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f.h.
"Terri" wrote in message
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Now I seem to understand - so if I want to makebackups in My Docume4nts,
I have to move the entire folder to there - correct??

The only way to open a PST file is from *within* Outlook. File - Open -
Outlook Data File.

As for where your PST files are, that might be where they are. Do you
have the PST you want to move open in Outlook already?

I see a Backup file (Office Data File) and when I go to it, it says
"You are attemping to open a file of type (Office Data File (.pst).
These files are used by the operating system and by various programs.
Editing or modifying them could damage your system. If you still want
toopen the file, click Open With, otherwise click cancel.

So - are my pst files in there? I cannot see them - should I put the
entire backup in My Documents:? If I cannot open them, then what is
the point because I cannot locate any contacts I have lost!

WHile the location is known, you need to enable viewing hidden
files/folders to actually see the .pst file.

| How do I put a .pst folder in My Documents for constant up to date
| copying? Mine seems to be in a folder called Office Data File which
I
| cannot open but do not see any pst file...can someone kindly help
me
| out here?