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- C:users{yourname}AppDataMicrosoftOutlook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Rename the “outlook.pst” file, perhaps “outlook2.pst”\n
- Restart Office Outlook, it will create a new profile, if it can’t create a new profile, you may have to reinstall a fresh version over it to create a PST file. Other way is to copy an intact PST file from elsewhere into the above folder\n
- Once your Outlook has started up, goto File, Open, Oulook Data File, and open your renamed PST file (outlook2.pst as per above example)\n
- If you are able to open, then good, slowly copy or move the files over to your new PST file.\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nFor most businesses, it is likely you would have thousands of correspondence. So for archiving purposes, you may want to create a year-by-year outlook PST file, call it outlook2010.pst for archive year 2010 messages, etc. Move the files over and pack it away for archiving.<\/p>\n
Most of us don’t use the auto-archiving in the outlook, if you are the lazy type who don’t care so much about keeping your back up file tidy, you may use it to reduce the size of the main outlook.pst file to avoid this problem. For me, I prefer to keep it neat and do the archiving manually, separating it to year-by-year archive. This helps to avoid the outlook PST file from ballooning and avoids the slow startup of Office Outlook program, or worse, the Office Outlook program hang.<\/p>\n
Backing up your email messages<\/h3>\n
Because email correspondence are very important for your business especially when it comes to agreement and tracking down what has been said and agreed upon, it is crucial to have some kind of backup system or archiving system whether it is automated using the outlook archive or manually done. To reduce the impact of loss mail, another suggestion is to use gmail to pull the incoming POP3 mailbox. Gmail has a feature to read incoming POP3 mailbox and copy it into their mail servers. However for SMTP outgoing you will have manually create BCC to your Gmail account to save another copy. If you are too lazy to do that, then at least you still get half of your correspondence back up, but it is better than nothing.<\/p>\n
So take heed to always archive your mail correspondence in your Office Outlook to avoid Outlook program hang or slow startup.<\/p>\n
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