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Back up or move Outlook

Back up or move Outlook

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Back up or move Outlook

- [Instructor] I'm going to show you where your data actually resides on your computer and also, how to export your Outlook file. Now, technically the data does belong to a server because I've added a Gmail account and a Microsoft Exchange account, so I'm only using an offline version of the data, but it's still here. To see it, click file, make sure you're on info on the left, click account settings, and then account settings again. From here, change the data files tab. This is going to show you where all the data files for your account are located. You'll notice it ends with the file OST. That's an offline file extension. Because this data is hosted online, I'm looking at an offline version of it, which takes up less room. If you wanna see where it is on your computer, you can select your file and click open file location. It's going to take you right to it and you can see how big it is. From here, you could right click on it, choose send to, and back it up to an external device…

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