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I try to back up my email often.

When I did a back up this time, which I include subfolders, near the end it

gives me "operation failed"

The file is pretty big is there any set size when exporting that Outlook

would fail?

thanks

Bruce


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Also, When I look where it is saved, it shows a file, which is fairly

sizable, not sure if it saved everything?

This is Outlook 2003



"Bruce" <notreally@idontwantoo.com>wrote in message



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Don't know exactly how you're doing it now, but you may want to try this backup

routine for all of the content in your PST files:



Outlook 2003 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en





"Bruce" <notreally@idontwantoo.com>wrote in message

| Also, When I look where it is saved, it shows a file, which is fairly

| sizable, not sure if it saved everything?

| This is Outlook 2003

|

| "Bruce" <notreally@idontwantoo.com>wrote in message

| news:etUp74PHGHA.1676@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

|>I try to back up my email often.

|>When I did a back up this time, which I include subfolders, near the end

|>it gives me "operation failed"

|>The file is pretty big is there any set size when exporting that Outlook

|>would fail?

|>thanks

|>Bruce

|>

|

|





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Exporting is never a good way to backup Outlook data.

Backup Outlook data by copying the relevant Outlook data file.

--

Russ Valentine

[MVP-Outlook]

"Bruce" <notreally@idontwantoo.com>wrote in message



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Well, always worked for the last 8 or so years it seems. Found teh problem

after I cleaned some of my emails out using scanpst.exe. It needed to be

cleaned out some anyways.

thanks



"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <russval@gmail.com>wrote in message



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You've been lucky. Exporting routinely loses and often misplaces data.

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Russ Valentine

[MVP-Outlook]

"Bruce" <notreally@idontwantoo.com>wrote in message



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