Perhaps, if you provided some information. You provided none.
We have no idea how you are creating this "backup" file. You should probably
mention at least that much, don't you think?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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I have XP Pro SP2 installed on my laptop with MS Outlook2003.

I only use Outlook as a Contacts list and , until today , this data
was saved as the file "backup.pst" in the path ;-
C:\D&S\User Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft \Outlook
and was 3241KB in size.

As I now wish to keep all data out of the C;\ drive I have now saved
this file to the E;\ drive and the file now has the path :-

E:\Outlook\backup.pst.

To my surprise this file is now only 1735 KB in size !

No Outlook contact data has been added or removed .

Can anyone explain this discrepancy ?

B.N.