Outlook 2000 and Personal Folders.pst

[Guest]

I have a personal folder.pst file which shows a file size of 3.74 MB when I
look at it through Window's "My Computer", but when I open the file and add
it to my Outlook folder list (File | Open | Personal Folders File), it is
empty.

Can anyone explain why? Is there a way to hide contents and then unhide
them, from within Outlook (or elsewhere)? Or would this file be corrupt?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

 

[Guest]

pst files don't get smaller when you delete stuff from them, so the file may
have contained messages at one time, but they are now deleted.
(I think?)

 

[Guest]

I tested deleting a folder from another personal folder and the overall .pst
file size did change.....????

Suggestions????

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a personal folder.pst file which shows a file size of 3.74 MB
when I look at it through Window's "My Computer", but when I open the
file and add it to my Outlook folder list (File | Open | Personal
Folders File), it is empty.

Can anyone explain why?

As Marvin said, you can empty a PST and not have it change size as far as
Windows is concerned.

Is there a way to hide contents and then
unhide them, from within Outlook (or elsewhere)?

Views and filters will do that, but I doubt that's the issue here.

Or would this file be corrupt?

If it were corrupt, you probably couldn't open it. It may simply be empty.
But when you say "empty" do you mean there absolutely nothing in it, no
default folders even? Or do you mean that the default folders are there,
but they don't contain anything?