Hi.
The outlook.pst file contains the message folders and address book for
Microsoft Outlook, not Outlook Express. The programs, though they do the
same tasks in most respects, are different in the way they store files. If
you use MS Outlook, that was the program's folders you were backing up.
HTH.
Aman
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From: VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of George Cassell
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 7:19 PM
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Subject: OUTLOOK.PST
Thank you to all of you who helped me with identifying and locating the
required files for backing up my message folders in Outlook Express. I've
located the .DBX files, and am now modifying my batch program to include
them in my backup procedures.
But now, I'm wondering about the OUTLOOK.PST file that I had been backing
up all this time, erroneously thinking that it contained the various
message folders, and have since deleted. Everything still seems to work
normally, in spite of the fact that that file is now gone.
Does anyone know what the OUTLOOK.PST file is for? It's a rather massive
file, and if it's necessary, I'll surely restore it. But I sure would like
to know what that file was all about, especially since I originally thought
that it contained my message folders, and had been backing it up
(apparently unnecessarily) for all this time.
-- George
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