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March 10th 10, 11:25 PM
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Finding Outlook.pst
Brian - thank you for the detail in your response. Joz.
"Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: "Joz" wrote in message news 
I did a search for Outlook.pst, and the search engine found this: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ You must be using Windows XP. This is more simply written %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Questions: 1: when I try to find that path after %username% (using the actual name), there is no Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ , so the only way to find the Contacts file is to always do a search. How can I find the Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ so I don't have to run a search? Underneath your username folder is both "Local Settings" and "Application Data". There is also an "Application Data" folder below "Local Settings". Thus, there are both C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook and C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. This latter folder has a shorter path %AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook. Your PST is in the first of these two folders. The second path contains other Outlook data files. 2: My purpose in finding it was for backup purposes. So I ended up doing a Copy/ Paste from my Search to my external backup. It seems to have worked, but when I try to open the .pst file, I get a message that Windows can't open the file. I wanted to open it in the backup to make sure I could access the Contact list. You cannot open the PST with Windows Explorer, only Outlook. To make a backup of it., just copy the PST to another folder, say on an external disk drive or a flash memory stick, without opening it. Make sure Outlook is closed before trying to copy the PST. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] . 
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