MacOS – Outlook 2011, where are located messages placed in “On the computer”

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I'm using Outlook 2011 under OS X Mavericks.
I moved some messages to my Exchange account to folders located in the section "On my computer".

I need to know where these messages are physically located on my computer.

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You should check out your personal folder (user) and navigate to:

Documents
Microsoft User Data
Office 2011 Identies
Main Identity

Please note that Outlook 2011 does not use a .PST file format

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