Location of Outlook Email folders within MS Office installation?

[snow patrol]

I've installed MS office on winxp under the directory d:/programs/msoffice . Unfortunately I've had a couple of problems with my system, and I need to salvage my emails from this hard disk and save them onto another one. Could anyone please tell me the exact location of the email folders I will need to save? Bear in mind this is not for outlook express.

Thanks. 🙂

 

[erikistired]

outlook usually saves in a .pst file rather than folders (like outlook express) and the only surefire way i've found to get everything is to export it from the program while it's still running. since you can't do that, search the hdd for *.pst and see if it's done a recent backup. i would like to see if anyone else knows of a way to salvage outlook data, as i run into this sometimes with clients who don't mention they've got problems until it's too late.

~erik

 

[snow patrol]

thanks for the reply. In the past though, I've definitely been able (with outlook express any way), to locate all my folders (inbox/outbox/sent/deleted etc.) in a specific directory within windows. I've then been able to just copy/paste those from one install of windows to another so that I take all my emails with me. Just need to know where the files are stored within the ms office installation, ie which directory. Anyone? 🙂

 

[ProviaFan]

Generally, Outlook will have a separate .pst file for each user, located in that user's \Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Edit: Outlook only keeps one .pst file, and that single file has all of your Outlook folders in it, including the email ones, plus contacts, calendar, etc.

 

[snow patrol]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Generally, Outlook will have a separate .pst file for each user, located in that user's \Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Edit: Outlook only keeps one .pst file, and that single file has all of your Outlook folders in it, including the email ones, plus contacts, calendar, etc.

Thanks 🙂 - so will that definitely be my outlook and not my outlook express email files??

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: snow patrol

Originally posted by: jliechty
Generally, Outlook will have a separate .pst file for each user, located in that user's \Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Edit: Outlook only keeps one .pst file, and that single file has all of your Outlook folders in it, including the email ones, plus contacts, calendar, etc.

Thanks 🙂 - so will that definitely be my outlook and not my outlook express email files??

Yea, that will be your MS Outlook file, not the Outlook Express one.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Generally, Outlook will have a separate .pst file for each user, located in that user's \Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Edit: Outlook only keeps one .pst file, and that single file has all of your Outlook folders in it, including the email ones, plus contacts, calendar, etc.

isn't that what i said? (minus the location, because some versions of windows will put it in c:\windows). i've found tho that under nt4 at least there was only backup.pst, not outlook.pst, and that wasn't a complete copy of all the info.

~erik

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: jliechty
Generally, Outlook will have a separate .pst file for each user, located in that user's \Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Edit: Outlook only keeps one .pst file, and that single file has all of your Outlook folders in it, including the email ones, plus contacts, calendar, etc.

isn't that what i said? (minus the location, because some versions of windows will put it in c:\windows). i've found tho that under nt4 at least there was only backup.pst, not outlook.pst, and that wasn't a complete copy of all the info.

~erik

Yes, that's basically what you said, but he also wanted to know where the .pst file was at. I was pretty sure that it would be at that location, since his system profile says that he's running Windows XP, and I'm running Windows XP also. In addition, under Windows 2000 the .pst file is kept in the same location, since Win2k uses a similar (or same) directory structure for the documents and user files.