How to Backup Your Outlook 2007 Email

Microsoft Outlook is used by thousands of internet user for email. Outlook holds your email, contacts, calendar, and more. If you are using Outlook for your email you should backup your email every 6-8 weeks.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Open Microsoft Outlook 2007 and locate the toolbar staring with File on the upper left hand side.

2. Click on File and scroll down to Import and Export. The Import and Export wizard will now appear.

3. Highlight Export to a file and hit next. Select Personal Folder File (.pst) and then hit next.

4. The Personal Folder should be highlighted and if not select Personal Folder. Double click on Personal Folder to collapse everything. Make sure you also put a check mark in Include Subfolders and hit next.

5. In the Save Exported file as: you can leave the default name or rename it anything you want.

6. Select Browse and change the default file location. I recommend changing it to your My Documents or Desktop so you can find it easily. After you have selected your file location select Finish.

7. I recommend hitting ok on the next step. You however can add a password to your file if you want.

Tips & Warnings

• You should backup your email every 6-8 weeks.
• A .pst file will backup everything Outlook contains.
• The file size can be large so getting a USB drive bigger then 1GB is recommended.
• Failure to backup your email can lead to a lose of all your emails and contacts.

Resources

• Internet Security Center
• Stop Email Scams