Office documents in OUTLOOK folders - where are they really.

[Guest]

I have dragged a bunch of Office documents into Outlook folders, so as to
have them in the same folder as e-mails on the same subject. (These documents
were NOT attachments to any mail message.) They are mostly .docs and .xls; I
can open them just fine, though it takes a few seconds longer.

My question is: Where Are These Files Now.

When I open them, the top bar shows the pathname to where they used to be,
in the WINDOWS folder that I draged them from. But when I look at that
folder with Explorer, it appears empty. (I did delete these files after I
dragged them to Outlook)

I even set the properties of the source folder to show all system and hidden
folders, and it is still empty. Also when I do a Windows search for any of
these documents, it returns them as being in the empty-appearing source
Windows folder.

This is driving me crazy.

BTW, is threre anything coming in Office 12 to facilitate putting e-mail's,
tasks, favorites, and Office docs in a common folder such as a company or
project that they all relate to?

Thanks in advance,

 

[George Hester]

OK I just did what you mentioned with an Excel document. It looks to me as
though it is a message. For example if you double-click the Excel ones Excel
itself should open. But if you Forward one of those it will go as a normal
eMail message with the Excel file as an attachment.

So where is this "message" held? Well there are two places where it might
be. First is the most logical namely in the pst file itself. But it does not
have to be. Another location that Outook can access is in a subfolder of
your Temp folder identified by what your %TEMP% environment variable is.

The only way I can think of to test for sure that it is in the pst itself is
take the pst to a different machine and bring it up there.