Can .pst file be located in Onedrive?

Come on MS, are you seriously telling me if when I now want to buy a SP4 for 900 bucks that I can not sync my 4 email accounts between my outlooks? All are IMAP but they just sync in-box and not sent messages. Are you kidding me? There MUST be a way! Same with that message follow-up. If I mark a message on my WP10 with that red flag, why isn't that red flag transferred to outlook on my laptop... Still lightyears to go and it doesn't seem to be too difficult to implement that does it?

Gordon BP:

outlook.com has several problems for me.  The worst being that it doesn´t have an automatic "archive" function, with a corresponding "All Mail" folder, like Gmail does.  This function has been invaluable for me in locating old email messages of great importance that had been discarded and that would otherwise have been lost.

Also,  and surprisingly, and as others have partially mentioned here, outlook.com doesn´t synch all functions available in Outlook.  For example, Categories don´t synch correctly, and there are many threads here commenting on this if you do a search.  As well as several other functions, notably Tasks.  And I believe the same with Notes.

Lastly, I am not sure I understand your point #2.  Gmail contacts and Calendar are available anywhere online.  But if you mean to say that Gmail can be the intermediary among Outlook installations, to keep Outlook Calendar and Contacts in synch, then I don´t understand or know how that could be accomplished.

Outlook is designed primarily for use in a corporate environment with Exchange Server.

The fact that it's been used by private individuals for some years hasn't altered that fact - most Outlook seats are still in corporate environments.

Outlook.com has come close by using Exchange Active Server - and of course you can use an Outlook.com email address in Outlook.

Otherwise you need to use one of the methods I posted.

Ok but why won't Microsoft do for plain Outlook what it does with OneNote, namely save the user's data to the cloud, where it is easily shared and comparatively safe from inadvertent data loss, then periodically create backups to a local folder?  (OneNote 2013 on my laptop saves my notebook at a url very similar to https://d.docs.live.net/5efb087e4hb04609/Documents/My Notebook then backs it up periodically to a local folder, C:\Users\geo\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneNote\15.0\Backup\My Notebook, by default.)  Is it to create a demand for Office 365, or similar (hunger for the lucre)?

thanks,

george

I use several machines - two laptops, a tablet snd smart phone.

There are easier and safer ways of synching data other than locating the pst file in a synchronised folder.

1. The easiest way is to use an Outlook.com email address. then your mail, contacts and calendar are ALL synced automatically as Outlook.com uses Exchange Active Sync. The only thing that isn't synced automatically is Tasks, as there's no built-in app for Tasks. For that I use 2Day, available from the Windows Store.
2. If you use Gmail, then you can also sync mail contacts and calendar on all your devices without resorting to potential corruption of pst files
3. If you use neither, and have no desire to, then you can use IMAP for email, and a third-party contacts, calendar and tasks sync site such as Fruux or Memotoo, both of which offer free accounts. Both of those will sync with Outlook and most other mail clients.

HTH