Thanks. But how do I now get round this? I have just created a brand new
backup and I still have the same problem.

I think I had closed it, surely by closing Outlook down you are closing the
file?

Sorry, novice here!



"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Because you failed to disconnect the file from the Outlook profile before
you deleted it.
You must close any PST file from Outlook before you delete it from the
hard drive.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Joe Bloggs" wrote in message
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Hi.

Using Office 2003 with Vista SP1

I backup all my Outlook folders in one "pst" file most months and call
them
"outlook-03-09" for March backup and so on each month.

Today I created May backup "outlook-05-09" and tried deleted March file,
it
will not delete with Outlook running. So I closed Outlook.



When I now start Outlook it looks for the deleted file and says default
e-mail folders can not be found. So I have to restore for recycle bin and
leave in folder.

I like to delete old backups and just keep most recent. Any idea why this
is happening?

Thanks