Backup and Restore your contacts and emails in Outlook 2010

4 Parts:

Steps to create a backup

Steps to Restore a backup

Tips Tricks & Warnings

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Plenty of us use Microsoft Outlook, for storing contacts and send / receive emails. Either facing the issue of upgrading our Laptop or PC to a new one, or simply we need to back up our data for safe keeping, yet lots of us seem not being able to find how to do it. In hereafter, we will guide you on how to do that, either for your contacts only or for your email data, or for an important categorized email folder.

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   Run your Outlook program, and click on "File" on your Menu Bar, then click on "Options"

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   Locate and click on "Advanced"

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   If you can see the "Export" section as in the photo, Click on the "EXPORT" button, if you cannot scroll down to locate it

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   On the "Export" window, you should select "Export to a file" [marked 1], Click on "Next"

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   This is really the trick choice, now you should select "Outlook Data File (.pst)", Click on "Next"

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   Now, If you want to back up everything, Emails (sent and received), Calendar, Journal, Notes ...etc

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   You must select the "Personal Folders" and make sure the "Include subfolders" is ticked [Marked in Orange], If you want to back up a specific folder like only backup "Contacts" or "Sent Items" you should select that and click "Next".

   

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   Now, you need to select where to save the backup file, click "Browse" button, and select where to save, then Click on "Finish"

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   for security reasons, you will see a window where you can add a password, this is an optional choice, you can skip it if you don't need to set a password

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   If a password is set, then that password should be entered upon restoring backup.

   

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1. 1
   You need to follow above steps until reaching step 4, here you should select "Import from another program or file" [markerd 2], Click on "Next"

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   On the "Import a File" window, select "Outlook Data File (.pst)", then click "Next"

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   Now, you get to select the backup file, click on "Browse" button and select it

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   The Options Radio buttons [marked in red] are important. They are self-explanatory. Pay attention to them, and select what is appropriate for you.

   

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   If your backup file is password protected, then a window where to enter the password will show

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   Depending on the kind of data you backup and want to restore, the next window will show the info, in here, It is showing the "Contacts" cause the info I backed up was the contacts

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   If you need to import all data, MAKE sure you tick the "Include subfolders". Also you can choose to import to the current folder, or into the same folder in. Next you need to Hit "Finish".

   

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   Congratulations, you have managed to restore your backup data.

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• If you need to back up to change and convert your Outlook files to a new PC or Laptop, then you must select "Personal Folder" and make sure you tick the "Include subfolders".

If you have problems with any of the steps in this article, please ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below.

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