Is there any difference between exporting pst files and simply copying them
to another drive while Outlook is closed? I had assumed that there had to be
SOME reason for the export function which takes an age while the copy
function takes a few seconds?  Is the exported pst file more compressed than
the copied one or does the exported one export the contents of the file
attachments like the normal pst file does?

For some reason, both in safe mode and normal, the export function wont work
on my archive folder;  it starts, exhibits an hourglass or goes on to export
but always crashes the program before it finishes.  I am just wondering when
the scanpst function which detects that it wasn't closed last time stops
working and my user pst files start being irretrievably corrupted by all
this crashing?

(BTW, is there some way of doing this in outlook express?  Is everything in
OE carried in one big file somewhere?)