Help: Need to create BATch file to backup Office 2002 data

[Yahoo]

I want to create a batch file I can use to copy all the critical files
in Outlook 2002 so that, if I have to reinstall MSO 2002, I can just
copy the file off a CD, make them writable, and proceed as if nothing
ever happened. I know I have to copy off the PST file, but what other
files will I need to copy to be sure I get my address book, contacts,
preferences, blocked addresses and etc?

Is there a good program that can do this for me, AND which will allow
me to select what I want to restore? I looked at ABF Backup - it
seems to backup ok, but it seems to resoter everythin or nothing - you
cannot select to just restore, for instance, your Contacts or your PST
file.

TIA for any help you can offer!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I want to create a batch file I can use to copy all the critical files
in Outlook 2002 so that, if I have to reinstall MSO 2002, I can just
copy the file off a CD, make them writable, and proceed as if nothing
ever happened.

You asked this in m.p.outlook, too. Don't multipost.

 

[Yahoo]

Since these are different groups, I did not assume that the same
people (and only the same people) read both groups. So.. I posted in
both of them to be sure that people using only one of the groups might
see my request. . What's wrong with that?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Since these are different groups, I did not assume that the same
people (and only the same people) read both groups. So.. I posted in
both of them to be sure that people using only one of the groups might
see my request. . What's wrong with that?

What's wrong is that you posted two identical separate posts into two
newsgroups (called a multipost) when you should haev posted exactly the same
message in a single post into the two groups (called a crosspost - include
both groups in the destination field). The latter is good because
newsreaders know that it's a post in another newsgroup and do not consider
it a new post, thus allowing the readers who say it already in one group to
skip it as read in the second group. Forte Agent, your newsreader, allows
crossposts. It also allows Followup-to, which you should also use when you
crosspost so that when others respond to your posts, the answers all go to
the same newsgroup.