Help restoring lost email from my laptop backup

[Lanew]

I somehow lost many months worth of emails in my desktop Outlook 2003. My
"backup", if you will, is my notebook, which has the emails on it. Since I
cant figure out where the emails on teh desktop went (no, not in deleted
items) I'd like to export from notebook to desktop - but I dont want to do
that with year's of emails, just the ones I've lost - how would I
export/import for just a particular date range?

Thanks

 

[dlw]

there is a filter button in the export screen.
NOTE, if you copy the resulting pst file via CD, once it's on the desktop,
you need to right click it and uncheck the read only attribute.
NOTE, in outlook on the desktop, DO NOT import the file, open it with a
File/Open/Outlook data file.

 

[DL]

Outlook doesnt lose mail, if its stored in the data file.
Presumably you've run a search for specific mail you believe to be missing?
What type of mail account are you using that gives you a duplicate on your
notebook?

 

[Lanew]

DL
I'm using POP3 accounts, set up on both computers so I get the emails on
both (with the option selected to leave messages on the server so they
download to both machines)

Now, as to your point about searching for lost mails - I just did and I
THINK that I found them on a search - but I dont know WHERE it found them or
how to find them all and move them back to the inbox. I"m guessing that I
somehow filtered them or??

What can I do next?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Now, as to your point about searching for lost mails - I just did and I
THINK that I found them on a search - but I dont know WHERE it found them or
how to find them all and move them back to the inbox. I"m guessing that I
somehow filtered them or??

The pane showing the search results should have an "In Folder" column that
will tell you in what folder the messages lie. If it's not the folder where
you want them, open that folder in a window, then select the messages in the
search window and drag them to the correct folder.

 

[Lanew]

I cant find the "In Folder" column that you refer too. I show Subject,
Received, From, etc, but no "In Folder". Am I looking in the wrong place?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I cant find the "In Folder" column that you refer too. I show Subject,
Received, From, etc, but no "In Folder". Am I looking in the wrong place?

How did you perform the search? What did you click?

 

[Lanew]

Used "Find" in the top bar.... put in a subject from one of the missing mails

 

[Lanew]

Any help?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Used "Find" in the top bar.... put in a subject from one of the missing
mails

Try Advanced Find.(Ctrl+Shift+F). Does that make a difference?

 

[Lanew]

It turns out that I did NOT have the lost emails in other folders on the
desktop - so I have to go the route described below of importing from my
notebook. But I dont follow what you are saying about:
"DO NOT import the file, open it with a File/Open/Outlook data file."

Can you explain the procedure please?
Thanks for your help

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

It turns out that I did NOT have the lost emails in other folders on the
desktop - so I have to go the route described below of importing from my
notebook. But I dont follow what you are saying about:
"DO NOT import the file, open it with a File/Open/Outlook data file."

Can you explain the procedure please?

See this:: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm