"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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You have asked to 'show all files'??? IN XP, tools /folder options/view

Yep - hidden, and in a silly place. Once you find the file, you can move it to somewhere more sensible and use it from there. I put it under "My Documents", which I back up regularly.

I can't imagine how many calls Microsoft has had about this, over the years, and how much their support people must hate this bit of bad design. Their document 287070 has more on these files, including links to other documents on ee.g. how to move them.

I answered a similar question here:

http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...jor-crash.html

I personally would back it up from the directory and also back it up via the backup tool on Outlook.

I must admit though, Outlook has to be the worse program for backing up.

You should try get home premium rather than Ultimate, Ultimate is full of useless crap! :ugh:

Thank you, one and all, found the little bugger.

Sorry, preduk, hadn't read the other thread - as I'm not bright enough to *answer* many questions on compyooters. Good learning source though. Should have thought of that.

Doh!

I already own a full licensed copy of Ultimate, btw. I tend to buy honest software and usually go for the right hand column in the comparison chart, as I *hate it* when I want to use a function that my version doesn't support.