I do that as well......I have an external hard drive, and also subscribe to
Carbonite, so whatever is on my desktop gets backed up several places.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
scanpst.exe is the inbox repair tool provided by MS which will check your
pst (data File) for err's

A backup/export to your desktop is no backup at all, you backup to
external
media or a seperate HD
"Jan Groshan" wrote in message
news
Guess I don't read this group often enough to see alternative ways of
backing up/saving the .pst file, although I did export it to my desktop
a
couple of weeks ago and just today say that it was "last updated" this
morning. No, I haven't had a chance to run Office Diagnostics from the
cd
yet. That's my plan for later this evening. What will scanpst.exe do?
Will
it find whatever the problem is that's making Outlook shut down?


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
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Why would you need for outlook to be open in order to backup your pst?
If you are thinking of export that is certainly not the way to backup a
pst
The method of backing up / saving a data file has been posted here
daily

Have you tried Office Diagnostics, from the Office cd, or even scanpst,
the
repair tool on your pst?

"Jan Groshan" wrote in message
...
HELP! Suddenly, out of nowhere, my Outlook (2007) will NOT stay open.
It
loads, and then I get the "encountered an error and must close"
message.
I
can't even back up my .pst file because the program won't stay
loaded.
Any
clues.
(Windows XP SP3)