8 months of Deleted and Sent Messages Missing from Outlook

[bokee88]

I had to reformat my hard drive. Saved a copy of 800 MB pst file on an
external hard drive. After reformat, I reinstalled Outlook and Imported the
..pst file.

After importing the .pst file I noticed several messages were missing from
the Sent and Deleted messages. I started up this .pst file in May 2006.

All of my Deleted and Sent messages from May 2006 until Nov 2007 are present.

All of my Deleted and Sent messages from Nov 2007 until now are missing.

Why are these 8 months of messages not there?

I believe they are in that backed up pst file because the backup was still
800 MB, while the new .pst that I started up shrunk to only 600 MB. I tried
the scanpst.exe program but that didn't change anything.

Any ideas? Thanks.

-Brian

 

[Vince Averello [MVP - Outlook]]

Not sure but I have to ask... why do you care if deleted messages are
missing? You deleted them... now they're gone. Seems like a match made in
Heaven.

The Sent items are another story. If you open the PST file you saved
directly (File menu > Open > Outlook Data File), are the items there?

 

[bokee88]

Vince,

Thanks for helping. No. When I first reformated I tried to just do a
"File-Open" but I ended up with nothing when I did that. Literally nothing.
There were no messages, my calendar was empty, etc. However, the Import did
bring a substantial amount.

(As for the Deleted messages, I wish I could agree but for some reason I
find myself wanting to go back to track what some one wrote to me the last
time we communicated a lot. I am sales, so I need to be reminded what they
said 2 months ago but I don't want to save them in a special folder, so I
"save" them in my Deleted folder. If that makes any sense.)

Thanks again for the help. Do you have any ideas?

-Brian

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

If you need the messages, you are much better off moving them to a special
folder - mine is called "completed" and all message I need kept are moved to
it when I'm done with them so my mailbox isn't quite so large.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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[Pat Willener]

Try again File | Open | Data File; make sure you specify the correct file.