Hello there,

I’m running Outlook from Office Pro 2019

I use Dropbox as a continuous cloud backup for all work files.  Anything inside my DropBox folder is auto-synced to the cloud. 

Outlook is using IMAP to connect my web host provider/email server.

I want to relocate the  .ost data file from the default location over to my DropBox folder so its always being backed up.  I use Outlook and DropBox  across 3 different computers and want all email data to be synchronized across all 3 computers.  I do not want to rely solely on the email IMAP server at my web host co.  to maintain a backup of 11 years worth of emails.  By the way I am successfully storing Archived email in an archive file in a DropBox folder. 

Sidebar, I created a new data file in Outlook but it ends up being a .pst and not .ost and apparently with IMAP all data files are supposed be .ost so that also confused me.  

Anyway, if anyone has any advice, I’d truly appreciate it.

​Hello there,I’m running Outlook from Office Pro 2019I use Dropbox as a continuous cloud backup for all work files.  Anything inside my DropBox folder is auto-synced to the cloud. Outlook is using IMAP to connect my web host provider/email server.I want to relocate the  .ost data file from the default location over to my DropBox folder so its always being backed up.  I use Outlook and DropBox  across 3 different computers and want all email data to be synchronized across all 3 computers.  I do not want to rely solely on the email IMAP server at my web host co.  to maintain a backup of 11 years worth of emails.  By the way I am successfully storing Archived email in an archive file in a DropBox folder. Sidebar, I created a new data file in Outlook but it ends up being a .pst and not .ost and apparently with IMAP all data files are supposed be .ost so that also confused me.  Anyway, if anyone has any advice, I’d truly appreciate it.  Read More

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