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[jsigmon]

I have been useing outlook 2000 with my internet mail and I want to back up my address book, so I can add it back when I format my system. I can't seem to find where the file is located. has any one done this and if so how and where is the data to back up.Thanks for any help on this.

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James

[Sowulo]

The simplest approach is to just export it to a file and location of your choice and import it after your reinstall.

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[Lowland]

Exporting and importing .wab(s) is a good technique.If you wanna regularly back up data though, you'll find the .wab(s) in "All Users" in w98, w95, in Profiles W95, W98 in Documents and Settings in W2k.
Whatecer o/s, do a search for *.wab, and you'll find em.
But.... watch out what your profile settings are. In a multi-user environment (95/98) you should set these to your needs, e.g. do all users have same settings?
I say this because you need to make sure you back-up the right .wab.

Good luck



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[Melmac]

For Windows 98, the .pst file is located here for a default installation:
c:\windows\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst

Beware, it can be quite large, mine is about 50 MB.

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[ocdt]

The wab files you can just save then import later, as long as you are using the same version. they can be found at c:\windows\application data\microsoft\addressbook
Hope that helps

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