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Old 13th January 2009 | 03:41
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"AppData" files - Hidden?

With thanks to MicroSoft for releasing Service Pack 1 for Vista - I'm seriously considering a clean install of Vista Ultimate on the C drive of my machine. I'm assuming the stored data that is striped across the other three drives, in a RAID5 array, will be safe and sound.

However, I particularly want to keep my e-mail messages that have appeared over the last couple of days. Backing them to carbonite *may* cause corruption of the ones that are still stored there, so not happy with that idea. Thought of moving the .pst to a flash drive, or park it on one of my network computers until I reload Office 2007 Ultimate on the computer.

Now,"Tools/Account Settings" in Outlook says, quite confidently, that the data is stored in;

C:Users/<username>/AppData/.../Microsoft/Outlook/Outlook.pst

Yes - the dots were there. However, when I click "Computer/Explore/C:Users/<username> I am not offered a folder called "AppData" - so I cannot follow the tree to get to my pst file.

Anybody got any thoughts? (Yes, I know lots of people have - I meant do you have any thoughts about this file?).

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