Hello all,

I had an e-mail with a big attachment stuck in my Outlook 2003 outbox. I was
using MDBVU32 to delete the message (as I have done successfully before) and
then disaster struck!

I accidentally called the "EmptyFolder" procedure on the "Top of Personal
Folders" folder. I thought I had lost everything, e-mails, calendar,
contacts...EVERYTHING!

However, the .pst file is still the same size as it was before, which makes
me believe that all my information is still there. Nothing appears however in
MDBVU when I try to go into the "Top of Personal Folders" folder.

Is it possible that I just deleted the "links" to all my e-mails, contacts
etc. and is there some way of telling the .pst that the files are still there
and that I just need to re-link them?!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Sam

P.S. There's no recent backup of the .pst in case anyone as wondering!

I would try the method listed at the bottom of this link.

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm

ps - stop using the pst with outlook and when using the steps above, do it
on a copy of the pst.

"Feathers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:888654F5-56CF-4562-BA5C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello all,
>
> I had an e-mail with a big attachment stuck in my Outlook 2003 outbox. I
> was
> using MDBVU32 to delete the message (as I have done successfully before)
> and
> then disaster struck!
>
> I accidentally called the "EmptyFolder" procedure on the "Top of Personal
> Folders" folder. I thought I had lost everything, e-mails, calendar,
> contacts...EVERYTHING!
>
> However, the .pst file is still the same size as it was before, which
> makes
> me believe that all my information is still there. Nothing appears however
> in
> MDBVU when I try to go into the "Top of Personal Folders" folder.
>
> Is it possible that I just deleted the "links" to all my e-mails, contacts
> etc. and is there some way of telling the .pst that the files are still
> there
> and that I just need to re-link them?!
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
> P.S. There's no recent backup of the .pst in case anyone as wondering!

Incredible!

Suprisingly easy and extremely effective! Thank you very much! I won't be
doing that again!

"neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:

> I would try the method listed at the bottom of this link.
>
> http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm
>
> ps - stop using the pst with outlook and when using the steps above, do it
> on a copy of the pst.
>
> "Feathers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:888654F5-56CF-4562-BA5C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I had an e-mail with a big attachment stuck in my Outlook 2003 outbox. I
> > was
> > using MDBVU32 to delete the message (as I have done successfully before)
> > and
> > then disaster struck!
> >
> > I accidentally called the "EmptyFolder" procedure on the "Top of Personal
> > Folders" folder. I thought I had lost everything, e-mails, calendar,
> > contacts...EVERYTHING!
> >
> > However, the .pst file is still the same size as it was before, which
> > makes
> > me believe that all my information is still there. Nothing appears however
> > in
> > MDBVU when I try to go into the "Top of Personal Folders" folder.
> >
> > Is it possible that I just deleted the "links" to all my e-mails, contacts
> > etc. and is there some way of telling the .pst that the files are still
> > there
> > and that I just need to re-link them?!
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > P.S. There's no recent backup of the .pst in case anyone as wondering!
>
>
>