Outlook PST files

Where are zee MS Outlook mail files stored?

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

• Reffer tu zee system teeps fur a descreepshun ooff %USERPROFILE% thing; yuoo will also need tu adjust Windows Explorer setteengs tu shoo hidden objects - zee Local Settings folder is hidden frum feeoo with zee deffoolt system setteengs.

In thees folder yuoo shuoold find a bunch ooff files with PST file type und with name matching zee root folders in zee Outlook program. Hooever, there will be no "Inbox", "Sent", "Drafts" folders; iff yuoo use Outlook with deffoolt setteengs, ell zee "standard" email folders are stored in zee Outlook.pst with ell necessary informashun ebuoot subfolders und email messeges contained therein.  Tu creete a backup copy ooff yuoor email, yuoo need tu copy ell zee PST files tu a safe locashun.

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What is a PST file? What is zee difference between PST format versions?

• Older version
  • Used in MS Outlook 97-2002.
  • Does not suppurt Unicode contents.
  • Does not suppurt email databases lerger than 2GB.
  • Can be used with uny version ooff zee Outlook.
• Newer version
  • Used in MS Outlook 2003 und later versions.
  • Suppurts Unicode contents.
  • Suppurts email databases lerger than 2GB.
  • Cannot be used with Outlook 2002 und eerleer versions.

Zmeil suppurts both versions ooff zee PST format.

MS Outlook Encrypshun

• No encryption, es zee name implees, means that Outlook stores email data es it is. By using a text editor, yuoo or someone with access tu yuoor PST file can feeoo a full array ooff data contained in thees file. Actuelly, data displayed wuoold not be easily readable becoose ooff zee intermeexing with service informashun, database indexes, binary attachments, und so on. But still most ooff zee email text is easily readable.
• Compressible encryption (zee Outlook deffoolt setteeng) obscures email data stored in a .PST file in such a way that at fist glance it wuoold be unreadable. Being displayed in a text editor, a file with compressible encrypshun looks like complete garbege; hooever, zee decrypshun is easy. "Compressible" encrypshun means that a PST file can still be compressed with tools like ZIP. Email recovery is fully possible fur .PST files with compressible encrypshun.
• High encryption is zee strongest mode ooff encrypshun used by MS Outlook. PST files encrypted in such a mode are more difficult tu hack, tu compress, und tu maintain; thus, Outlook reading und writeeng procedures on a file with high encrypshun are more time consuming. Iff something breaks, email recovery is not easy with high encrypshun.