

Outlook 2010 is the first version of Outlook where the default location for pst-files is set to the user’s “Documents” folder (in a sub folder called “Outlook Files”). For clarity, I will only refer to the folder in question as “Documents”. Note: Depending on your version of Windows, the folder is either called “My Documents” or “Documents”. You might be doing this unnoticed or (as a network administrator) might deploy Outlook with its default storage location pointing to a Network Share on a file server or NAS-system, or a Cloud Storage location such as OneDrive. While I’ve warned before about not to save pst-files to a network share or Cloud Storage, this issue requires some additional care and attention when using Outlook. Are you using Outlook and is your Documents folder redirected to a network share like a file server or a NAS-system or to Cloud Storage like OneDrive or Dropbox?
