How To Easily Backup/Restore Microsoft Office Outlook® Emails And Personal Settings

This tips will show you how to backup and restore all of your personal settings and emails from/to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Outlook Express. In case you might want to reinstall your Office Suite, this simple steps will come handy.

1. The files that we're going to backup are hidden, you need to unhide it first. Go to Folder Options > click on View tab > put the check on "Show hidden files and folders" > click Apply and OK.
2. Navigate to C:/Users/UserName/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook/. Copy and save the contents inside the Outlook folder as example like in image below:


3. To restore the backup, first you must unhide the folders, then simply copy/paste the backup into the Outlook folder which is at C:/Users/UserName/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook/. But, if you want this done perfectly, restore the backup first before you run the Office Outlook for the first time.

The above steps are for Windows Vista and Windows 7, for Windows XP the file path is slightly different, the files is in C:/Documents and Settings/UserName/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook/.

Simple isn't it ..