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Anyone know how to fix this...

In the last few days i got this message when attempting to backup outlood with Codeplex

codeplex Failed to copy file: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file

I already reset Advanced System Settings, temp files in Environmental Variables to c:\windows
temp

But that didn't work?

I am a low-tech person, not a coder.

Please advise.

Hello,
do you think should be possible to hide the .OST file from the list of Outlook file to backup?
I think there is no reason to backup that file and if you have a long list of PST archive could be hard to notice the .OST in the middle of the list.
Maybe is possible to add an option like "Backup all PST file" alternative to "Backup all shown file" under the full list of file. Otherwise maybe is possible to add a registry key or an option in a configuration file to set the list of desired visible file extension.

Anyway thanks for your plug-in!

Hi
I just installed app but can not see in outlook 2013 however it exists in the control panel.

Thx

hi, i am possibly missing the obvious but can't seem to make the addin work. i installed it (no errors, it shows in the "programs and features" list but not visible in outlook.
when i manually try to add the addin outlook tells me it is not a valid office addin:

i use windows 10 and outlook 365 version 1911 Click-to-Run
any suggestions are welcome

A couple of the links to the outlookbackuppaddin done't have the setup files on them... Finally found one that had it.

Outlook normally doesn't keep the AutoArchive archive PST attached in the folder list. It may be attached during an AutoArchive, by option Advanced > AutoArchive > AutoArchive Settings > During AutoArchive: Show archive folder in folder list, but even then it will disappear after the AutoArchive is complete.

How can you set the Backup addin to back up the archive PST?

You can manually attach to the archive PST and then select it in the Backup settings. But that only lasts as long as the archive is attached. If you detach it and then check the settings it will be gone again.

Hallo Tom,
ich benutze Dein Addin schon seit vielen Jahren. Aktuell die Version 1.9.
Seit Beginn des Jahres 2020 wird die Sicherung nicht mehr durchgeführt.
Getting file lock...
starting copying...
Failed to copy file: Die Anforderung wird nicht untertützt
One or more errors occured. Please check the messages above and clos this window manually

Es gab keinerlei Veränderungen an Hard und Software
Office 365
Win10 prof
64-Bit

Hast Du irgendeine Idee was da los ist?

Viele grüße aus Hamburg, Germany
Michael

2 of my 4 ost mail files don't appear as options to include in the backup. These 2 email accounts are imap rather than exchange mail accounts, but outlook 2016=office 365 saves the mail accounts as .ost files in the same directory location as my other 2 exchange accounts. Any ideas?

After removing version 1.6.0 in Programs Features in preparation for installing version 1.7.0, I installed version 1.7.0. After installing 1.7.0 I checked Programs and Features and found it appears as version 1.6.0.

This backup tool is amazing and I really appreciate all the hard work you put into it. Thank you so much!!
Phalebote

Hello,

Thank you for great works on this add-in.
Could you please tell me if it will be a support of Office 2019 ?

Regards,
Edouard Li.

I am working on a family members Windows 10 w/Outlook 2013 x64 Pro Plus. The 1.7 Add-in is listed within Outlook, however, always unchecked. If you check it, it un-checks immediately after you OK'ing the add-in window, without even re-starting outlook (all other add-ins keep the setting you specify).

Ive done everything I can find in the help on Github:

• Uninstalled/reinstalled.
• Disabled AV etc.
• Disabled other ad-ins.
• Checked the Event logs (cant find anything relevant).
• Re-registered the add-in at an admin command prompt, which says:
  Detected Office 64 Bit
  Fetching Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook..
  Creating subkey Addins
  Creating subkey Codeplex.BackupAddIn
• Hunted the registry to see if Outlook is stating this addin has crashed or something and is disabled (no it hasnt)
• The add-ins within the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Outlook area does exist (which is backed up by Outlook showing the add-in within the interface).
• Checked the OST and PST files for permissions (the user is Owner and has full control on both files).

The one and only one thing I cannot find is a regkey that back in October last year, on a post on here, its suggested HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CodePlex\BackupAddIn\ should be created, and it doesnt exist. Ive run the command line util with /register multiple time, from both Command Prompt and Powershell Admin Prompt (not that it should make a difference).... but nothing works to create this regkey.

Everything else on the machine seems to check out..... Has anyone any suggestions at all? Or perhaps a regfile/list of what should be in that regkey HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CodePlex\BackupAddIn\

Thanks!

hey,

isn't there a possibility via xcopy command to only copy changed parts of the outlook pst file? So when you do every day a backup, it souldn't copy the wohle pst, which is about 5 Gigs.

Chris

Greetings,

Wondering if there is a way to save messages to a file as it runs the backup. Goes by too fast to read.
Windows 10 - Outlook 2016

Thanks.

I am getting an error when trying to install on a new PC it is running windows 10 Pro any idea where I can look to try to resolve this issue?

Hello,

I have installed the Backup Addin 1.7, but it does not appear on the Outlook 2016 Pro Plus toolbar.
Also checked the disabled add-ins settings area, and it's not disabled there.

Any idea why it would not be appearing?
I previously had it installed with a different edition of Office on the same machine. I uninstalled the old Office without uninstalling the Backup addin first. I tried a repair and uninstall/reinstall of the Backup Addin, but it still won't appear even though it reinstalls normally. Something is corrupted somewhere.

Hello,

thanks for for this great tool.
We are currently using and testing the GPO abilities.
Most of it is working as expected but if we provide a Backup path over the "Destination path of backup" option the path is not reachable.
Sample Path: \\Server\pst$\%username%
The Path is correctly shown in the setting but if we save it always state: Destination-folder doesn't exists!

If I delete it and type exactly the same manually it works without issues. If I copy the path line from the settings window and copy it to a explorer windows it also fails. If I type it by hand again it's working. Also if I copy it first to notepad and then to the explorer or back to the Destination Line it fails.

Means from the appearance it's absolutely same but the effect is different.

This option would be really handy for us so I hope it is a solveable issue.

Thanks in advance.

Outlook 2016 Backup Add-In 1.7.0 no longer works with X64 !
I have installed it, not give an error message
but there is no backup in Outlook 2019 x64 (ribben)

In Outlook 2019 x32 it just works
Please help me

vulliw

I have one user who's backup add in, after being set up and working properly for approx a week. Suddenly cannot find the directory. Re-choosing the same directory fixes the issue for approx a week. This has happened 3 times to the same user.

Nice to have... in the Backup tab in Outlook in addition to Settings a "Backup Now" selection which causes an immediate backup when Outlook ends (rather than as per the schedule). For use when very important emails arrive which you want to preserve immediately.

This tool is excellent and works well.

Is it possible to add some feature, to show the size of PST.

Which will inform user, if the PST grows beyond a particular size.

You can give it a thought.

Cheers !

the back up window does not close at the and of its work. Is there any solution for that?

Hello,
because my backups take up to 8 minutes and it consumes a lot of network power it is unpleasant when I close outlook and the backup starts unintended immediately without any change to stop it. Could you think about putting a 10 seconds count down on a dialog with a cancel button with shifts the backup to the next closing of outlook?
Best regards
D.

I have 1.6.0 version installed.

And tried to run 1.7.0 installer. It prompted me to uninstall old version, and later 1.7.0 got installed.

Can upgrade (in place) be taken care in subsequent versions..

Thank you

This addin looks very promising, but after I'd installed it, the Backup tab appears in the ribbon but is greyed out, i.e. I can't use it. What haven't I done?

I'm moving to a new laptop and used the OutlookBackupAddin file that I used on my previous laptop but when I go to setup the backup options, there are no file locations listed under Outlook-Files. I uninstalled and downloaded the latest app (1.9) and tried again, but nothing shows. I tried to unhide hidden directories, but that didn't work either. The error I get indicates no files for backup selected. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Outlook 2013 just as I have on my previous laptop. OS is Windows 10 just as it is on my previous laptop.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

while using HiRes monitors bakup screen as per image attached is blur
Can someone think to make such a small improvement?

One of my .pst files is bigger than 4GB.

The backup works as long the destination file does not exists.
If it does exists then at some point during copying I get "Failed to copy file: More data is available" and the backup stops.

I am using Windows 10 64-bit, Microsoft Outlook 2010 32-bit.

Look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-copyfileexa
dwCopyFlags COPY_FILE_NO_BUFFERING and COPY_FILE_RESTARTABLE may fix the problem (not sure).

Hello,
I installed latest version 1.9 (downloaded 31/07/2019) and when exiting Outlook 2013 (on W10) I get the following errors for each of the PST I would like to backup (for test purposes I backup to another folder on the same drive):
17:48:51 Starting backup...please wait...
17:48:51 Check whether outlooks is still running ...
17:48:51 No outlook process found
17:48:51 Ensure only one instance running ...
17:48:51 Check whether target directory exists...
17:48:51 Summing up file sizes ...
17:48:51 Adding size of C:\xxx\Outlook\ZZZ-G.pst (495,53 MB)
17:48:51 Error retrieving file size from: -C:\xxx\Outlook\ZZZ-G.pst (495,53 MB)-
17:48:51 Adding size of C:\xxx\Outlook\BNL-DemandManagement.pst (710,35 MB)
17:48:51 Error retrieving file size from: -C:\xxx\Outlook\BNL-DemandManagement.pst (710,35 MB)-
17:48:51 Adding size of C:\xxx\Outlook\ADU-WAN.pst (494,56 MB)
17:48:51 Error retrieving file size from: -C:\xxx\Outlook\ADU-WAN.pst (494,56 MB)-
17:48:51 Adding size of C:\xxx\Outlook\ADU-Telephony.pst (14,06 MB)
17:48:51 Error retrieving file size from: -C:\xxx\Outlook\ADU-Telephony.pst (14,06 MB)-
17:48:51 Adding size of C:\xxx\Outlook\ADU-Sites.pst (965,38 MB)
17:48:51 Error retrieving file size from: -C:\xxx\Outlook\ADU-Sites.pst (965,38 MB)-

Any idea how to correct this?

Regards,
Al

Thank you for this add-on. Wonderful!
If I want to run all three of your bat scripts, how do I separate the filenames?

Hello,

Quite possibly i am being dense and this is something im doing wrong.

I am having issues installing since i cannot find setup.exe in the zip folder.

This app rocks and im glad you are still supporting it.

Thank you

After installing the dialog leaves blank. I can fill in entries and save them. But next time i open settings dialog, entries are blank again. I can find reg keys in registry and manually modify them.
After closing Outlook, backup is working fine.

Edit: Its Outlook Home and Business 2016, 16.0.11929.20298 32 bit

Outlook 2016 32bit + windows 10 64bit environment.

Plugin installs, but it gets disabled by outlook 2016 resilency feature.
As it slows starting outlook2016.

Is it possible to avoid slowness of plugin while loading outlook 2016

In an effort to make this addin more user friendly, options need to be provided to the user when the backup fails due to an error.

As far as I can tell, the application will exit when there is no error. When there is an error, the application just sits there and waits for the user to hit the close button on the window. While this is important for error reporting, user's who are not tech savvy may be unsure how to handle the fact that the window isn't closing or offering a way to handle the problem.

My suggestion (and/or request) is that you add a simple message indicating that there was a problem with the backup, and a simple "Okay" button to close the application window. This would improve the UX significantly in the event that something goes wrong.

It was working perfectly, and still works on my laptop, but somehow Office Home & Business 2016 wasn't working properly, I reinstalled, and now can't install the OutlookBackupAddIn to my Outlook - I downloaded 1.7, but it doesn't show as an Add-In, and when I go to Options Add-Ins Manage(Go) and then Add I can't add any of the dll files - I just get a message that it's not a valid Office Add-In. Help. This is the greatest pst auto backup program ever since Outlook drop theirs.

Hallo,

die Gruppenrichtlinie funktioniert gut, aber ist es möglich, dem User den Zugriff zu den Einstellungen zu verweigern ?

Besten Dank und Grüße
Georg

Is the password to the keys mentioned in any of the docs? or maybe I am blind

Hi. Thanks for creating outlookbackupaddin. Just started using it with Outlook 2019. Question: Is it possible to save daily backups using a grandfather-father-son rotation scheme so that, once established, each subsequent backup finishes by deleting the oldest one? I'm concerned that if I only have a single backup, as currently configured, and it somehow that copy gets corrupted, I'll have nothing to fall back on. Possible? Hoping so.

Hello,
Thanks for this great addin !
Is there a way to start a silent mode backup (no window showing up) ?
Another functionality that would be great is to execute a backup (in silent mode) while outlook is running (using VSS) to backup files in background.

Maybe this could be usefull, I don't know :
https://github.com/alphaleonis/AlphaVSS

Let me know !
Thank you.
Regards

Heya,

danke für das tolle Addin :)
Seit Jahreswechsel habe nun auch ich mit folgendem Fehler zu kämpfen:

08:14:24 Getting file lock...
08:14:24 Starting copying...
08:14:24 Failed to copy file: Unzulässige Funktion
08:14:24 One or more errors occurred. Please check the messages above and close this window manually.

Ein paar Eckdaten:
Datei wird auf eine Netzwerkfreigabe gesichert (NTFS).
PST bereits 4,94GB groß
Win 10 und Office 2016 ProPlus (32bit)

...Das Sichern auf eine lokale Festplattenpartition funktioniert ohne Probleme.
Nochmals Danke und Vg

Tobi

Backup Work With Account Exchange But not work With Account Imap
Need Help

We recently upgraded from 1.7.0 to 1.9.0, on Windows 10 (64 bit), with Outlook 2016 32 bit.

We have not prob with 1.7.0, but 1.9.0 we get this message, and it never proceeds to backup.

10:25:59 Starting backup...please wait...
10:26:00 Check whether outlooks is still running ...
10:26:00 Found outlook with PID 19476
10:26:00 Waiting for OUTLOOK...
10:26:00 Found outlook with PID 19476
10:26:00 Waiting for OUTLOOK...
10:26:01 Found outlook with PID 19476
10:26:01 Waiting for OUTLOOK...
10:26:02 No outlook process found
10:26:02 Ensure only one instance running ...
10:26:02 Check whether target directory exists...
10:26:02 Summing up file sizes ...
10:26:02 Adding size of C:\Data\Mail\MS Exchange.pst (1.33 GB)

Any clue what is causing this ?

I am getting this error in Outlook 2016 Version 1804. Below is a copy of the log:

Starting backup...please wait...
Check whether outlooks is still running ...
Found outlook with PID 4484
Waiting for OUTLOOK...
No outlook process found
Ensure only one instance running ...
Check whether target directory exists...
Summing up file sizes ...
Total bytes calculated...
Evaluate destination path...
copy C:\Users\hblalock\Documents\Outlook Files\Outlook.pst to D:\Outlook Backup\Outlook.pst
Getting file lock...
Starting copying...
Failed to copy file: The parameter is incorrect

I have tried uninstalling, unregistering, and reinstalling version 1.7 however the error stays the same. Initially we had a problem as the drive letter for the backup location changed when we switched to a new USB drive. Once that was corrected this error occurred.

Thanks in advance, and help is appreciated.

Sorry maybe being stupid but where is the Setup.exe file as cannot find it in base of any folder?
Am I missing something here!?
Many thanks in advance.

Backup Work With Account Exchange But not work With Account Imap
Need Help

I had the destination for backups set as on the E disk. Due to a system update the disk became reassigned to F. When Outlook Backup ran I got a bunch of error messages related to an instance of Outlook not being found, rather than the backup destination. On checking Settings I found the destination had been blanked out. Entering the new destination fixed the problem. Confusing and not intuitive.

Hi, I am using MS Windows 10 64bit, and Outlook 2016. I have a .mail.de account for emails and a .outlook.de account for calendar.
Only a .ost file of the .outlook.de account was created. As far as I understand, this is no backup that can be used to restore my account after new istallation.

is it possible to add checkbox which will shutdown PC after backup?

There are multiple problems when used with Office 2016 ProPlus (Enterprise). In brief: (1) Long waits after the message indicating it's trying to get the file lock. None of the PST files are locked. This happens for every PST file. (2) There is no long wait to get the file lock for the OST file, but it never gets it and gives up almost immediately. (3) It does claim, once it does lock each PST file, that it's backing it up. However, a binary compare of the original with the backup copy reveals literally tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands (or even millions+) of differences. It does not make a bit-for-bit copy of the original file. (4) It hangs on the last PST file that is selected to be backed up. That said, it allocates a file of the correct size for that file, but no data is ever copied into it. (5) The backups that it does appear to make get made about four to seven times as fast as a simple file copy. I don't see how this program can make bit-for-bit copies any faster than Windows Explorer (or another backup utility). For example, it supposedly copies one of my 9GB PST files in 17 seconds (to a file server across a gigabit LAN connection). That's impossible (as long as my switch does not run any faster than 1Gb).

I got a new PC that came with Office 365 trial. M$ apparently has two types of office 365 available for use now. the traditional desktop installed version you get from visiting the M$ office site, and the windows store version which while it operates and looks identical, it is indeed different. the outlookbackupaddin works for the traditiona; desktop install version, but does not work for the ms store version. I did a back door install by installing the traditional version side by side the store version, and I then had two separate copies of all the office programs.

I tried to use the outlookbackup.vsto to install the addin into the store version, but it calls on files not in the outlookbackupaddin installed files. I found out which files were needed, and fortunately, windows already had copies of the files, all located under various directories in c:\windows\microsoft.net\assembly\gac_msil\

I thought I could copy the files over to the backupaddin directory, but this resulted In a hash mismatch error for Microsoft.visualstudio.tools.applications.runtime.dll

the files which the .vsto reported as missing are as follows:
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.dll
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Outlook.dll

on my system with only the store version of office installed windows keeps these files in the following locations:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime\v4.0_10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common\v4.0_10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.dll

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.Office.Tools.Outlook\v4.0_10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Microsoft.Office.Tools.Outlook.dll

here is the first error found when I tried to install the addin manually using the .vsto file:

Name: BackupAddIn
From: file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/CodePlex/outlookbackupaddin/BackupAddIn.vsto

************** Exception Text **************
System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException: Downloading file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/CodePlex/outlookbackupaddin/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll did not succeed. ---> System.Net.WebException: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\CodePlex\outlookbackupaddin\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll'. ---> System.Net.WebException: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\CodePlex\outlookbackupaddin\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll'. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\CodePlex\outlookbackupaddin\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll'.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.Net.FileWebStream..ctor(FileWebRequest request, String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare sharing, Int32 length, Boolean async)
at System.Net.FileWebResponse..ctor(FileWebRequest request, Uri uri, FileAccess access, Boolean asyncHint)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Net.FileWebResponse..ctor(FileWebRequest request, Uri uri, FileAccess access, Boolean asyncHint)
at System.Net.FileWebRequest.GetResponseCallback(Object state)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Net.FileWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.FileWebRequest.GetResponse()
at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Deployment.ClickOnceAddInDeploymentManager.DownloadAddIn(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Deployment.ClickOnceAddInDeploymentManager.InstallAddIn()

subsequent errors listed the other file discussed here names as missing.

I suspect fixing this error will allow for a normal install from the .msi setup file to succeed

Outlook 2016 Backup Add-In 1.7.0 no longer works with X64 !
I have installed it, not give an error message
but there is no backup in Outlook 2019 x64 (ribben)

In Outlook 2019 x32 it just works
Please help me

vulliw