Where to locate .pst files on your harddrive

Premise:

1. Your Outlook should have been configured before and is working before you can find the .pst files from your hard drive

2. You should have an administrator account

3. Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, View tab, then click on “Show hidden files”, Apply then OK

4. If for some reasons when you go back to Folder Options to see if the green circle stayed on Show Hidden Files but went back to “Do not show hidden files” instead, restart the pc and check again.

5. Even if you do not perform Import/Export option in Outlook, the .pst files can be located. If hard drive crashed and you cannot run outlook anymore inside windows, there’s still hope.

All you need to do is, click on

C:\documents and settings\user\local settings\applicationdata\microsoft\outlook\archive.pst

Or

C:\documents and settings\user\local settings\applicationdata\microsoft\outlook\outlook.pst

Sometimes outlook.pst or archive.pst is not on the same sequence of folders, you can use search if you want. There you go, you can have copies of pst files and you can import these files to another outlook if you want.

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IMPORT AND EXPORT OPTION IN OUTLOOK EXPRESS

EXPORTING FILES FROM OUTLOOK EXPRESS

If for some reasons you wanted to change computers from old to new, but you have lots of emails and contacts from your email client (outlook express) and wanted them to be transferred to your new pc, these are the steps in doing such.

1. Open Microsoft Outlook Express

2. Click on File on top left

3. Select Import and Export option

4. Select Export to a file, then Next

5. Select the folder to export from:

Choose: -Personal Folders then

Check the box Include Subfolders then Next

6. Save exported files as:

Click Browse, select Desktop (your destination folder and for easier access in importing later)

Then select the first option replace duplicates with items exported,

7. Click Finish

IMPORTING FILES FROM OUTLOOK EXPRESS

You have to perform exporting files first before doing this, or if you have .pst files somewhere, you can go ahead and follow these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Outlook Express

2. Click on File then Import and Export

3. Select Import from another program or file, then Next

4. Select file type to import from:

Select Personal Folder File (.pst), then Next

5. Click Browse, select pst files from the external hard drive or from any location where you saved the exported files, then Next

6. Select Personal Folders, then check the box “Include Subfolders”

Select Import Items into the same folder in…

In dropdown menu select Personal Folders

7. Click Finish

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