Okay, so in that case what's the best way to completely backup outlook,
contacts and all messages including special folders and archive etc.? Would
that be to simply copy and past archive.pst and Outlook.pst onto a new pc?

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
No. Outlook uses the contacts folder in either your pst or exchange
mailbox.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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After furious head scratching, Rob asked:

| Okay, so in that case what's the best way to completely backup
| outlook, contacts and all messages including special folders and
| archive etc.? Would that be to simply copy and past archive.pst and
| Outlook.pst onto a new pc?
|
| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
|| No. Outlook uses the contacts folder in either your pst or exchange
|| mailbox.

yes. that's what we recommend, along with using them as the default pst,
rather than importing the contents into a new pst.

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"Rob" wrote in message
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Okay, so in that case what's the best way to completely backup outlook,
contacts and all messages including special folders and archive etc.?
Would that be to simply copy and past archive.pst and Outlook.pst onto a
new pc?

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
No. Outlook uses the contacts folder in either your pst or exchange
mailbox.