Sunil, try: C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ Peter _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sunil Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:04 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Outlook 2003 message store Hi, I want to back my Outlook folders up but can't find the message store I've looked in c:\documents and settings\Sunil but can't find it anywhere, where should it be by default?...cheers