HELP Deleted a much needed distribution list

[Michele]

Working with Outlook 2007 and I was adding new names and I highlighted a name
and hit X and erased the whole distribuition list. Also did it to another
list with about 150 names without realizing. I don't think I am using
Exchange. Is there anyway to recover this list?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Check your Deleted Items folder.

 

[K-8 IT]

A secretary in our school did this same thing and the list is not in the
Deleted Items folder. Is there any other way to get it back?? She does have
some older backups of the directory which would include the pst file - what
do I do with the pst file to recover the distribution list? It has been my
experience that the lists do not get exported when you export to a pst file!

 

[Brian Tillman]

A secretary in our school did this same thing and the list is not in
the Deleted Items folder. Is there any other way to get it back??
She does have some older backups of the directory which would include
the pst file - what do I do with the pst file to recover the
distribution list? It has been my experience that the lists do not
get exported when you export to a pst file!

Use File>Open>Outlook Data File to open the backup PST to see if it contains
the DL. NEVER export to a PST. Exporting does NOT make a faithful copy of
the original PST.