JST Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Where are the emails stored to? ie if i create a folder to save them in where is that folder on the drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 The folder won't exist in its own right, outlook stores all its data in the file 'outlook.pst' unless you've set it otherwise. You can export/import certain folders to a seperate *.pst folder using the built in function in outlook. the file will be in "C:\Documents and Settings\**username***\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JST Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 so if i could find the .pst folder (i cant creat on in Outlook 6 unlike the earlier versions were i could) i can save it to another drive for back up and then hopefully find a way to access it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 use windows search for to search for all files and folders on all drives for a *.pst files they are usually found in C:\Documents and Settings\"user"\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook ; you may need to enable "show hidden files" for the folder in order to see the pst files. you will probably find an outlook.pst and an archive.pst ; it's the former and not the latter you are looking for shoudl you have more than one .pst file then check the file properties for date and time stamps to see which were most recently used. if you have more than one then it is easy to get outlook to open both files but it's a bit long winded to type out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 oops- too slow you can copy the .pst files to any location you want as a backup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark90 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 The easiest way to access it on another PC is install Outlook then replace the new outlook.pst that it creates with your old outlook.pst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoatBuoy Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 oops- too slow you can copy the .pst files to any location you want as a backup You might be able to just drag the emails from your inbox to any folder you want on your desktop and it saves it as a msg file. Well it used to anyway. Done that many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 and copying back a new outlook.pst will re-instate the 'backup' you can disable the the current file by renaming it outlook.old, or cut/pasting it to another location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbarton Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Just found OUTLOOK.PST where you said it shopuld be, but it was last modified a year ago, it's only 112KB long and the only PST file on my computer. I've got 7000 deleted items in Outlook so the numbers don't make sense to me. Just had another look, my emails are stored in D:/DATA/OUTLOOK as a series of DBX files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 what version of outlook is that Roger? my outlook.pst is 267Mb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbarton Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 what version of outlook is that Roger?my outlook.pst is 267Mb. Version 6. The location for the data folder is specified here:- Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store Folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Things have changed a little by version 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbarton Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Things have changed a little by version 10. HA! You'll be telling me Windows 98 has been superceded next Looking at the date of that PST file it may have appeared when I signed up for broadband, perhaps BT put it there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JST Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 I know its OT yet again but i dont frequent the PC forums and this would be like asking if you put diesel or petrol in a tdi fuel tank... anyway OE6 keeps in stopping attachments making it through to my Inobx. Word docs come through and thats about it, no .zips or pdfs so how do i change it to allow the other files to come through? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 if you mean Outlook Express 6, in Tools drop down menu click Options & then the Security tab,then un -tick the 'Do not allow attachements' box, you should then be able to see & send/recive any attachments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JST Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 fantastic thank you ralph. its hard you know moving from AOL to OE!!!!! why i didnt do it ages ago i dont know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 no probs, hope you find OE6 easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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