Outlook PST files

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bobpalmbay

I moved my pst files to a directory to do a back up on an external drive. My
mailbox.pst didn't back up. Why? Is it not a pst?
 
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

Impossible to say. Try posting precisely what you did, what happened, and
what you expected to happen that didn't. Post as if we can't read your mind.
 
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bobpalmbay

I moved the mailbox.ps, archice.pst and personal.pst to a local directory so
I could back it up using a Seagate external darddrive. I opened Outlook and
everything appeared normally with the new directory. Then I did a back up and
only archive.pst and personal.pst were backed up. Is mailbox.??? not really a
..pst file?

Russ Valentine said:
Impossible to say. Try posting precisely what you did, what happened, and
what you expected to happen that didn't. Post as if we can't read your mind.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
bobpalmbay said:
I moved my pst files to a directory to do a back up on an external drive.
My
mailbox.pst didn't back up. Why? Is it not a pst?
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Pat Willener

Only your can tell; you write below 'mailbox.ps' - obviously this is not
a PST file.

Check Control Panel | Mail (Data Files) what and where your active PST
files are.
I moved the mailbox.ps, archice.pst and personal.pst to a local directory so
I could back it up using a Seagate external darddrive. I opened Outlook and
everything appeared normally with the new directory. Then I did a back up and
only archive.pst and personal.pst were backed up. Is mailbox.??? not really a
.pst file?

Russ Valentine said:
Impossible to say. Try posting precisely what you did, what happened, and
what you expected to happen that didn't. Post as if we can't read your mind.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
bobpalmbay said:
I moved my pst files to a directory to do a back up on an external drive.
My
mailbox.pst didn't back up. Why? Is it not a pst?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)

How, exactly, did you try to do the backup? With Windows Backup? With
Seagate's backup? Windows Explorer? With some other backup tool?

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Ben M. Schorr, MVP
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I moved the mailbox.ps, archice.pst and personal.pst to a local directory so
I could back it up using a Seagate external darddrive. I opened Outlook and
everything appeared normally with the new directory. Then I did a back up and
only archive.pst and personal.pst were backed up. Is mailbox.??? not really a
.pst file?

:

Impossible to say. Try posting precisely what you did, what happened, and
what you expected to happen that didn't. Post as if we can't read your mind.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I moved my pst files to a directory to do a back up on an external drive.
My
mailbox.pst didn't back up. Why? Is it not a pst?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

I moved the mailbox.ps, archice.pst and personal.pst to a local directory
so
I could back it up using a Seagate external darddrive. I opened Outlook
and
everything appeared normally with the new directory. Then I did a back up
and
only archive.pst and personal.pst were backed up. Is mailbox.??? not
really a
.pst file?
Click to expand...

And, in addition to the other questions, was Outlook open when you performed
this backup?
 
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