Cant locate Outlook.pst

Hello

Outlook 2010 will not find my .pst file. To my knowledge I have not deleted it. I have not used Outlook in quite some time and decided to start using it again.

I use Win 7.

I have unhidden all of the system folders and hidden files. As I have gone into AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook I do not find the file in there.

I have done a complete system search for Outlook.pst and I have found nothing.

As a result of this, Outlook will not even start in order for me to create a new file from within Outlook.

Please help me with my next step in being able to resolve this.

I appreciate your help.

Jason

Thank you for writing back.

It is not in Documents/Outlook either.

It was a new computer and I purchased office. All of the other programs are working fine.

When I open Outlook it says, "The file C:\Users\Jason Smith\Documents\Outlook Files\Outlook.pst cannot be found".

If I click "OK" then it takes me to a menu to locate the .pst file which I can not find anywhere. On the locate file window, if I press "cancel" then it says the same things as before (the file ... cannot be found).

If I click "OK" again then it takes me back to the locate file window again. If I press cancel again then I get an error message that says, "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The file C:\ ... .pst cannot be found.

After I click "OK" then the window closes and everything looks as though I had never tried to open Outlook.

Thank you for your help

I discovered what the problem was and it was my own error.

I was looking for "outlook.pst" but I had previously created a profile apparently and so it was a .pst file under a different name but in the same folder. Once I directed Outlook to that profile, it opened up perfectly.

I do have another question of an issue that is rising up, but I will post it to a new thread as it seems to be an unrelated issue.