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Posted By: jchuzi location of Outlook 365 data - 05/22/18 08:50 PM
I now have Outlook 365 and I can't find where it stores its files. I have been using Entourage 2008 and I know that all the data are stored in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage 2008 Identities, but I can't find the comparable location for Outlook. I want to know because, sometimes, I want to manually back up the data by copying to a clone (and I can do do that with Entourage). Any ideas?
Posted By: Ira L Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/24/18 03:14 PM
Could it be in the Outlook package itself?
Posted By: artie505 Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/24/18 03:56 PM
Have you tried searching for "Outlook" and "Microsoft" with Spotlight or EasyFind to see if anything that comes up looks promising?
Posted By: jchuzi Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/24/18 06:40 PM
Originally Posted By: Ira L
Could it be in the Outlook package itself?
There's a ton of stuff in there and nothing looks relevant.
Posted By: jchuzi Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/24/18 06:42 PM
Originally Posted By: artie505
Have you tried searching for "Outlook" and "Microsoft" with Spotlight or EasyFind to see if anything that comes up looks promising?
Spotlight only comes up with the Outlook applications and EasyFind has myriad suggestions that can only be explored in geologic time.

In the meantime, look at this TS thread that I started.
Posted By: artie505 Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/24/18 08:45 PM
Originally Posted By: jchuzi
...EasyFind has myriad suggestions that can only be explored in geologic time.

In the meantime, look at this TS thread that I started.

Eyeballing your EasyFind results for all items that don't begin with either /Library or /System will narrow down your selection VERY considerably, I'd think, and what's left may be helpful.

I took a look at your TS thread and learned that command-shift-. (period) reveals and hides invisibles. tongue
Posted By: jchuzi Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/24/18 09:03 PM
Nice idea about EasyFind, but still get a gazillion hits. shocked
Posted By: Urquhart Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/25/18 08:51 AM
Outlook 2016 keeps it in ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile
The individual messages are not files themselves. They are contained in an SQL database.
Posted By: jchuzi Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/25/18 10:05 AM
Originally Posted By: Urquhart
Outlook 2016 keeps it in ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile. The individual messages are not files themselves. They are contained in an SQL database.
I had looked in ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office and there are three folders in each, namely Application Support, Caches, and Preferences. All these folders are empty. There are no hidden files there (I was able to show hidden files to check).
Posted By: artie505 Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/25/18 10:20 AM
Time to call tech support?
Posted By: jchuzi Re: location of Outlook 365 data - 05/25/18 12:34 PM
Originally Posted By: artie505
Time to call tech support?
Quite right. I'll post back with their information.
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