Archive for April, 2009

Most applications save your work to a location somewhere within your “My Documents” folder. Most…. but not all. Some of the Data you might want to save during your regular backup is found in other locations. Some of these include your Outlook Express address book and emails, your favorites, and your Quickbook backups, to name a few. Here are a few of the more common data files not found in your “my documents” folder. If you know of some others let us know leave a comment.

Outlook Express Emails
C:\Documents and Settings\User Account\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{Random Numbers and Letters}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Address Book
C:\Documents and Settings\User Account\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book\User Account.wab
Microsoft Outlook
C:\Documents and Settings\User Account\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Microsoft Outlook .nk2 Auto-Complete File
C:\Documents and Settings\User Account \Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Favorites
C:\Documents and Settings\User Account\Favorites
My Documents
C:\Documents and Settings\User Account\My Documents
Desktop
C:\Documents and Settings\User Account\Desktop

Quickbooks Accounting Package Database – Default Location
C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks\databasename.qbw