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Steps to Backup E-mails in Microsoft Outlook
By Carl Martens | March 14, 2008
The Personal Folder file (.pst / PST) is the place where Outlook stores its data. Personal Folder file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts. You may have a single .pst file, and you may also have an additional .pst file that you use to archive messages Below are the simple steps to backup your PST files. By backing up these PST files you will be backing up all your Outlook information.
- Firstly, you need to find the location of your data files.
- From Microsoft Outlook menu bar click File->Data File Management->Data Files.
- Highlight the Personal Folders and click on the “Open Folder…” icon. Clicking on this icon will automatically launch Windows Explorer and take you to the location where this data file is stored.
- Within the folder you will find an outlook.pst file. Copy this file to another safe location on the hard drive or to another storage media like a zip disk, CDROM, external hard drive etc.
- You will need to completely exit Outlook prior to copying these files.
- In case of any damage to the original outlook mails you can easily, import the .pst files from the backup.
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