How to Backup your Outlook e-mails and Contacts

All your mail, your contacts, your calendars,almost every other detail of your life is in Outlook.

To make sure you don’t lose all this in case of a hard disk crash or some other disaster,

you can create backup copies of your Personal Folders (.pst) files — that’s where Outlook stores all the essential data.

To create a copy of your mail, contacts, calendar and other data in Outlook for backup or copying:

1. Go to your Outlook folder in Windows Explorer.
2. Highlight all files ending in “.pst”.
3. Make sure in particular your selection includes “outlook.pst” and “archive.pst”.
4. If you have Windows Explorer configured not to show file extensions for known formats, look for Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders files.
5. Select Edit | Copy from the menu to copy the selected files.
6. Open the folder where you want to put your backup copies in Windows Explorer.
7. Ideally, this will be on another computer, on a removable disk stored far away from your home, somewhere on the Internet, or at least on a different hard disk.3
8. Select Edit | Paste from the menu to paste your .pst files to the backup location

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Article by Mohsin Patel

Mohsin Patel has written 318 articles.

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