If you need the messages, you are much better off moving them to a special
folder - mine is called "completed" and all message I need kept are moved to
it when I'm done with them so my mailbox isn't quite so large.
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"bokee88" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3E1CCDAE-57D4-4967-A907-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Vince,
>
> Thanks for helping. No. When I first reformated I tried to just do a
> "File-Open" but I ended up with nothing when I did that. Literally
> nothing.
> There were no messages, my calendar was empty, etc. However, the Import
> did
> bring a substantial amount.
>
> (As for the Deleted messages, I wish I could agree but for some reason I
> find myself wanting to go back to track what some one wrote to me the last
> time we communicated a lot. I am sales, so I need to be reminded what
> they
> said 2 months ago but I don't want to save them in a special folder, so I
> "save" them in my Deleted folder. If that makes any sense.)
>
> Thanks again for the help. Do you have any ideas?
>
> -Brian
>
> "Vince Averello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> Not sure but I have to ask... why do you care if deleted messages are
>> missing? You deleted them... now they're gone. Seems like a match made
>> in
>> Heaven.
>>
>> The Sent items are another story. If you open the PST file you saved
>> directly (File menu > Open > Outlook Data File), are the items there?
>>
>> "bokee88" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:1DDBD801-74AE-4C79-A5C0-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > I had to reformat my hard drive. Saved a copy of 800 MB pst file on an
>> > external hard drive. After reformat, I reinstalled Outlook and
>> > Imported
>> > the
>> > .pst file.
>> >
>> > After importing the .pst file I noticed several messages were missing
>> > from
>> > the Sent and Deleted messages. I started up this .pst file in May
>> > 2006.
>> >
>> > All of my Deleted and Sent messages from May 2006 until Nov 2007 are
>> > present.
>> >
>> > All of my Deleted and Sent messages from Nov 2007 until now are
>> > missing.
>> >
>> > Why are these 8 months of messages not there?
>> >
>> > I believe they are in that backed up pst file because the backup was
>> > still
>> > 800 MB, while the new .pst that I started up shrunk to only 600 MB. I
>> > tried
>> > the scanpst.exe program but that didn't change anything.
>> >
>> > Any ideas? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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