Be sure you display "details" when using Windows Explorer to look for files.

Also, in Windows Explorer, go to Tools Folder Options View and verify
these settings:

- Remove checkmark next to "Hide extensions for known file types".
- Do check "Show hidden files and folders"
- Do check "show th efull path in the title bar"

By displaying details, you'll be able to sort file, for example, by date. Do
this sort to identify working pst files.

Don't delete any files justn because they're in the desktop folder. Check
the dates. Even open them, at least long enough to study them from within
Outlook.

JolhnF

Donna in Idaho" wrote in message
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When I search for .pst files - here's what I find:

On the desktop, internet files folder, I have the following 5 files:
Archive backup, Archive, Outlook Backup, and Outlook Archive Backup all
dated 9-22-04

In the Local settings, appl data, MS, Outlook folder I have the following
7 files:
Archive dated 2-7-06; Archive 1 backup, Archive 1, Backup, Outlook backup,
and Outlook all dtd 4-15-06; Archive backup dated 2-3-06

I would like to clean all of this up so I know where my outlook backups
are going, but I'm not quite sure where to start.

A couple months ago Outlook froze up when I was trying to send emails
using an add-on ProWrite. I guess the old files in the Outlook folder are
before then. I'm assumiing that I can delete all of the files in the
desktop folder.

I read the info at www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm. It
says that to configure outlook with a new pst-file location, you need to
copy to the new location the outlook files. Since I have so many of them,
I don't know which ones to copy to the new location.

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Thanks,
Donna