.Pst file disappeared - not in any folder

[azaminc]

I have spent the whole day trying to find my .pst file.

My computer crashed and I am trying to restore everything. All the
files are on the harddisk.

I have spent hours reading instructions on find the .pst file. I have
done a search for *.pst on all my hard disk, making sure hidden files
are searched and I have manually looked, repeatedly, in every possible
folder the file may be in.

The only issue I can see is that in 'Documents and Settings' there is
an All Users folder, a Default User one, an Owner one and a My Name
one, but the latter one is empty. The other three are not.

I imagine that is the folder where my .pst file should have been
stored.

How could the folder become empty for no rhyme or reason? Nobody has
touched my computer except me and, like I said, every other file and
folder on the computer is there as far as I can see.

Can anybody help please as I am devastated about losing my critical
emails.

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

"Tell me about it!"
I had a "similar" problem yesterday (sorry it's no consolation to you)
I found mine in the c:\>this bit I can't remember<\Windows\outlook\outlook.pst
Having found it, nothing could be done, and so deleted, and created a new
..pst file (pretty straightforward).
However, I too lost all my mails, and address books. :-(
"Good Luck"!

 

[DL]

You missed some info out; like how / what you did to recover your PC

Nothing is critical if you dont have data backed up. MS has a free OL backup
addin, there are numerous backup apps available, external hd's / usb sticks
are relatively cheap