Nov 30, 2011

Outlook 2003 Mail Backup / Restore

Sometime you may need to backup your Outlook data or if you re-install your Windows, you can follow steps to backup and restore it.
1. Backup Outlook
    1.1 On menu bars, [Tools] --> [Options...]

    1.2 On Options tabs, [Mail Setup] --> [Data Files...]

    1.3 Select which file you'd like to backup, click [Open Folder...]. (If you don't know which files you need to backup, you can backup all.)

    1.4 Copy .pst file to your backup folder. You can rename .pst file for easy to understand. Such like add the date you backup.
For Windows 7/8: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook
For Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

2. Restore Outlook
    2.1 On menu bars, [File] --> [Open] --> [Outlook Data File...]

    2.2 Select .pst file which you want to restore.


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