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Backing Up Emails

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Faculty and Staff use the University's Microsoft Exchange server, coupled with Microsoft Outlook Email Client to provide Villanova's users with more email functionality and the ability to manage e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks all from a single application.

Users' information (e-mail, contacts, calendar, tasks) is kept on the University's servers, with the exception of local mail  (or personal folders) and messages which have expired (please see UnIT's email policy).  The following website will provided step-by-step instructions for the process of backing up email/personal folders.

  • Open Microsoft Outlook.

  • Across the top menu, go to "Tools" and then "Account Settings."

  • Choose the second tab from within Account Settings called "Data Files."
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  • Choose the second tab from within Account Settings called "Data Files."

  • Click on the "Open Folder..." icon across the top.

  • From the dialog box that opens, look for the ".pst" file.
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  • This vuex2007.pst file holds the contents of the Personal Folders.  This is the file that needs to be backed up.

The file can be burned to a CD or sent to a flash drive. 
FIRST CLOSE ALL OPEN OUTLOOK WINDOWS.  Then right-click and use the "Send to" function.

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