For all of you who use Microsoft Outlook and have never backed up all of your emails, here are step-by-step directions to back up your emails.

1. Open Outlook and give it a minute to download all of your new emails.
2. Click on the File menu and choose Import And Export. If you don’t see Import and Export in the menu, move your mouse-pointer over the down arrows at the bottom of the menu, and then click Import and Export.
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4. Click Export To File, and click Next.
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6. Choose Personal Folder File (.pst) , and then click Next.
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8. Choose the account (If you see and “-” signs, click them. You only want to see “+” signs to be sure that you are backing everything up) that you want to backup and click in the check-box that says Include subfolders, then click Next.
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10. Click Browse, and then select the location where you want the new .pst file to be saved. The Desktop is always a good place to save it because its easy to find and you can move it to another drive later.
11. In the File Name box, , type the name that you want to use for the new backup file, and then click OK.
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13. Click Finish.
14. Strangely, this isn’t the end of the line. There is still another box that pops up. Here you have the option to password protect the file. If you choose to use a password, be certain that it is one you’ll remember. Click OK.
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16. Your computer will now show a green progress bar that shows how far in backing up each folder you are. DO NOT cancel this. If you do, you will have an incomplete backup.
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18. Once the backup is complete, copy the file to another drive for safe keeping.

Happy Computing,

Tim

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1. Alex Says:
   December 24th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

   Backup without restore this isn’t possible to my mind,know tool which perhaps do it-repair outlook pst,also as is known program is free,it recover lost Microsoft Outlook data is a sequence of operations involving scanning, identifying and saving such Microsoft Outlook items as messages, contacts, notes, reminders, journals, meetings, etc, recover data when a *.pst file completely or partially stops functioning, for example, it becomes completely or partially unreadable because of other applications, antivirus software or power failures,it scans, identifies and saves data from the pst file without modifying or indexing the source pst file,can save various Microsoft Outlook items as separate files with the .eml, .vcf and .txt extensions,reading data from files created in Microsoft Outlook versions 97, 98, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003, 2007 and saving recovered data in the format of Microsoft Outlook versions 97, 98, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003, 2007.

2. Tim Says:
   December 25th, 2008 at 7:13 am

   Alex,

   Thank you for this great information. I have heard of similar programs but I’ve never used one of them. I’ll have to check it out. have you actually used it before? What was the issue and did it fix it completely?

   Tim