HELP! Need File Format Infos

[Wilfried Kern]

I backed up my computer incl. Outlook with MS Backup for Win98 to a
file on an external computer. The file is corrupt and I cannot get back
my data. Looking with a HEX editor at the corrupt file is giving me
hope that that part of data still is available. To recover it I would
need either

1. A utility to repair a broken MSbackup file (*.qic) or
2. the structure of the file format for MSbackup or
3. the structure of the file format of Outlook.

Can abyone help PLEASE?

- Wilfried

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Your data should be in a .PST file...if it's at 2GB or close to it you may
need to use a crop tool to get back your data, but if it's smaller you may
just be able to use the Inbox Repair Tool. Did you find the .PST file?

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[Wilfried Kern]

Your data should be in a .PST file...if it's at 2GB or close to it you may
need to use a crop tool to get back your data, but if it's smaller you may
just be able to use the Inbox Repair Tool. Did you find the .PST file?

Thanks Jocelyn,

what I have is a file and in it a bunch of data. I know from parts of
the content, that the original outlook.pst file is in there. To extract
exactly that part I would need to know the "structure" of the pst file
so that I could cut off the parts which do not belong to it, either
with a simple HEX editor or I would write a small program to do that.

Wilfried

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

I'm trying to find out if what you're asking is possible, but in the
meantime: You were trying to use Win98's MSBackup to restore the .QIC file
you created under Win98, right? I didn't know anything about .QIC files so
I did some research and it looks like you'd need to use the same version of
MSBackup (that is, the same OS version) to restore the file as the version
you used to create it. Just wanted to mention that in case you weren't
aware of that...you didn't say what Windows version your second computer was
running.

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MVP - Outlook

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[Wilfried Kern]

Jocelyn,

many thanks for the trouble you are taking. Yes, I'm going two ways, 1.
trying to repair MSBackup and 2. to extract just the outlook file.
Currently I'm concentrating on the first task and I'm using the same
MSBackup as for the original backup action. The point is, that this is
a slow process in writing some easy to analyse files, backing up and
than analyse the structure of MSbackup QIC method. Then I have to write
a small program to repair as many files as possible .....

Anyhow, many thanks for your help.

- Wilfried

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

If you created the .QIC file using MSBackup in Win98 and you are using
MSBackup in Win98 to try to restore the .QIC file, then I don't know what
the problem might be. I'm not sure if the .PST file structure is documented
anywhere for you to refer to. If I hear anything further I'll let you know.

As a side note -- this is a personal preference for me, but if possible,
please quote at least the relevant parts of one or more past replies in the
thread when you add a new reply. I usually read the newsgroups with an
"unread messages" view, which means I don't see the old messages in a
thread...and if someone doesn't quote any of the earlier thread, I usually
have to switch my view to be reminded what the conversation is about, since
it may have been a day or two since my last reply. Not a TERRIBLY big deal,
but...a little bit of quoting is always good You can always snip out
the parts that are no longer relevant.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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