Back up for emails

[marion35]

My PC recently dies, and I was lucky enough to get most of my data, pictures
and emails back. I have now got an external hard drive, and want to do
regular back ups. I am looking for the best way to copy all my pictures,
files and spreadsheets, but also my outlook 2007 emails. Ideally, I would
like to be able to just restore all of these items on a new PC if needed, and
for it to look almost identical to what I had. I am not sure the back up
wizard I have on my machine does all of these things. I am not technical in
anyway, and have very basic undersdtanding. Can anybody please advise me hows
best to approach this?? Thank you for any help. (i did find the .pst file
which I saved to desktop and I was going to drag that on to hard drive,
however, when I click open, it says cannot read, so I dont think I have done
it right.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

The Easy Transfer app is at:
start menu/all programs/accessories/easy transfer

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[Alias]

My PC recently dies, and I was lucky enough to get most of my data, pictures
and emails back. I have now got an external hard drive, and want to do
regular back ups. I am looking for the best way to copy all my pictures,
files and spreadsheets, but also my outlook 2007 emails. Ideally, I would
like to be able to just restore all of these items on a new PC if needed, and
for it to look almost identical to what I had. I am not sure the back up
wizard I have on my machine does all of these things. I am not technical in
anyway, and have very basic undersdtanding. Can anybody please advise me hows
best to approach this?? Thank you for any help. (i did find the .pst file
which I saved to desktop and I was going to drag that on to hard drive,
however, when I click open, it says cannot read, so I dont think I have done
it right.

You've done it right but you can only open it with Outlook.

Alias

 

[marion35]

so, all I need to do is drag that to my external hard drive??? and if I
should need it, it will open in outlook??? Sorry to sound stupid.

 

[marion35]

I cannot see easy transfer. I go to the accessories, then easy transfer isnt
there... sorry to sound stupid.

 

[Alias]

so, all I need to do is drag that to my external hard drive??? and if I
should need it, it will open in outlook??? Sorry to sound stupid.

Not sure about 07, but with 03, you open Outlook/File/Open/Outlook Data
File. I would *copy* it and then paste it to the external drive. I also
have set up a folder for Outlook Backups and I have sub folders, each
with the name of a day of the week.

Alias

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

It's in System Tools

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[Mick Murphy]

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011030811033.aspx

Marion; above is the link on how to do your backup of outlook email messages.
Cheers!

 

[Frank]

My PC recently dies, and I was lucky enough to get most of my data, pictures
and emails back. I have now got an external hard drive, and want to do
regular back ups. I am looking for the best way to copy all my pictures,
files and spreadsheets, but also my outlook 2007 emails. Ideally, I would
like to be able to just restore all of these items on a new PC if needed, and
for it to look almost identical to what I had. I am not sure the back up
wizard I have on my machine does all of these things. I am not technical in
anyway, and have very basic undersdtanding. Can anybody please advise me hows
best to approach this?? Thank you for any help. (i did find the .pst file
which I saved to desktop and I was going to drag that on to hard drive,
however, when I click open, it says cannot read, so I dont think I have done
it right.

Marion, you need to read this article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070

Frank

 

[MyronH]

so, all I need to do is drag that to my external hard drive??? and if I
should need it, it will open in outlook??? Sorry to sound stupid.

Sort of, you have to attach it to Outlook to see/use the .pst file. How to
do this varies by version. I think 2003 and 2007 are similar but I don't
have my Office 2007 here with me today. To attach in 2003 you go to Tool |
E-mail Accounts. Select View or Change E-mail Acconts then Next. When the
accounts window opens you will see a large window showing your account.
Below that is a drop down list and a button that says 'New Outlook Data
File...'. Click on that button. Select the type of .pst, then click OK.
This opens a browse window. Browse to your external drive and select the pst
you have stored there. Ok out (though you may want to rename the personal
folder in the next window, located near the top of the next window from the
browse window window) and your pst will now show up in your folder list. You
can then move the e-mails you want to keep to folders in the pst and they
will be stored in the pst on your external drive.

You also can have your e-mail delivered directly to this pst which can be
done using the dropdown box in E-mail Accounts that I mentioned earlier
(right next to New Outlook Data File...).

Hope this helps.

 

[marion35]

Thanks for your reply...I see the link is for 2003, do you know if its the
same for 2007??
TThank you

 

[Charles W Davis]

Marion,

For several years, Outlook 2003 and now with 2007, I have my OUTLOOK.PST
file in a folder under (My) Documents. When the scheduled operating system
backup occurs, it goes with it..

 

[Alias]

Sort of, you have to attach it to Outlook to see/use the .pst file. How to
do this varies by version. I think 2003 and 2007 are similar but I don't
have my Office 2007 here with me today. To attach in 2003 you go to Tool |
E-mail Accounts. Select View or Change E-mail Acconts then Next. When the
accounts window opens you will see a large window showing your account.
Below that is a drop down list and a button that says 'New Outlook Data
File...'. Click on that button. Select the type of .pst, then click OK.
This opens a browse window. Browse to your external drive and select the pst
you have stored there. Ok out (though you may want to rename the personal
folder in the next window, located near the top of the next window from the
browse window window) and your pst will now show up in your folder list. You
can then move the e-mails you want to keep to folders in the pst and they
will be stored in the pst on your external drive.

You also can have your e-mail delivered directly to this pst which can be
done using the dropdown box in E-mail Accounts that I mentioned earlier
(right next to New Outlook Data File...).

Hope this helps.

I do it a much easier way. Open Outlook 03. Go to File/Open/Outlook Data
File and then I copy the folders I need to the Data file already there
by default. Then I close the .pst. Works every time.

Alias