Yes, all of your active data is in PST files, the autoarchive process moves
items past a certain age into another PST file.

"sheana" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm new to MS Outlook 2003, and am finding it difficult to understand the
difference between Outlook and OE. I just want to make sure my
observations
are correct. OE stores email in multiple files with the .dbx extension,
whereas Outlook stores email in one file, the *pst file. The disadvantage
with this is with outlook you only have to backup the new files you
create,
i.e. if you have a client and you sort his emails by year, you only have
to
backup 2008, not 2007, 2006 etc. Not so with Outlook...you only have ONE
file for everything..the .pst file. So you have to keep backing up the
whole
.pst file.

When I ran a search for my .pst files I found
C:\Documents and Settings\Sheana\Local
Settings\Application\Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outloo k.pst as well as
Outlook1.pst, Outlook2.pst and Outlook3.pst.

I have to Outlook profiles, but I don't know why I have 4 pst files, which
ones belong to profile 1 or 2.

Lastly, what are "Personal Folders" and what are "Archive Folders".
There's
a feature call "autoarchive" that pops up now and then...is that the same
thing, or do you just create a new folder and name it "Archive". Thanks
in
advance.