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How Outlook Stores Data
How Outlook Stores Data
As we mentioned earlier in this chapter, Outlook is, at its core, a flat-file database. When
new mail arrives, or when you create and save a new item in one of Outlook’s default folders
(Contacts, for example), Outlook adds the new item to the location specified as the primary
store. That location might be a local file, or it could be a set of folders on a Microsoft
Exchange Server. The exact location depends on how you (and, in some cases, your network
administrator) have configured Outlook. In most of the examples in this book, we assume
that your primary store is a Personal Folders file (with a .pst ...