Getting lost emails?

[Guest]

I copied the pst files to the new computer. I pointed to them with
file->open->etc.. and THERE ARE NO EMAILS just directories and names. Where
did my emails go and how do I get them back?

getting despirate.
charles......

Extend.dat isn't a pst-file and doesn't have to be transfered.
For more info on backup and restore see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I found 3 .pst files in the Outlook directory as follows:

Outlook.pst 797,585 KB 4/18/2007 7:30pm
20070417.pst 684,497 KB 4/18/2007 7:30pm
backup.pst 265 KB 2/7/2006 4:52pm
extend.dat 1 KB 4/6/2007 2:43pm

I was soooo happy to read your answer. I immediately copied all of the
above to my backup system. I am sure that I can recreate my emails after
I
rebuild my XPP machine from scratch. Any other gotchas I need to worry
about?

thanks ever so much.

It appends it so everything is there. Use File-> Open-> Outlook Data File
to
connect the pst-file.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

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I just archived all emails before 1/1/2007 into a file called
20070418.pst.
Then I thought I wanted "ALL" of them to be archived so I did another
archive
function but this time I did it from 4/18/2007 to the same file,
20070418.pst. Please tell me that the older emails are still there and
the
newer emails just added on to the older file. If not that means that
all
the
old emails are gone? To afraid to check as yet. If the later senario
is
true, is there any way to get all my emails back?

thanks,
charles.......

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I copied the pst files to the new computer. I pointed to them with
file->open->etc.. and THERE ARE NO EMAILS just directories and names.
Where did my emails go and how do I get them back?

Out of curiousity, when you open 20070417.pst, if you right click on the top
most folder, the one you expand to see all the folders, and go to Folder
Size (I think it is), does it show sizes for all the folders that are
greater than 0?

 

[Guest]

Out of curiousity, when you open 20070417.pst, if you right click on the top
most folder, the one you expand to see all the folders, and go to Folder
Size (I think it is), does it show sizes for all the folders that are
greater than 0?

f.h.

I found my emails but now I am having a different problem. When I try to
use my contacts list/address book I am getting the following error message:

The address list can not be displayed. The contacts folder associated with
this address list can not be opened. It may have been moved or deleated or
you do not have permissions.

The .pst file was created with a different user on another computer and
moved to the newer one. The Outlook 2003 is a standard install from MS
Office. So my dilema is where is the file/directory that I need to take
ownership of and how do I do that?

thanks,
charles.......

 

[F.H. Muffman]

When I
try to use my contacts list/address book I am getting the following
error message:

The address list can not be displayed. The contacts folder
associated with this address list can not be opened. It may have
been moved or deleated or you do not have permissions.

The .pst file was created with a different user on another computer
and moved to the newer one. The Outlook 2003 is a standard install
from MS Office. So my dilema is where is the file/directory that I
need to take ownership of and how do I do that?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/319901 would be my first steps.