How to determine old PST settings?

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Steve Snyder

A user's profile became messed up and they got a new rpofile. Now the
problem is they don't remember where their PST file was (it's not on the
local hard drive). Where can I find what the old PST setting was in their
old profile - registry hive? A .PRF file? Anywhere?

Thanks.
 
Steve said:
A user's profile became messed up and they got a new rpofile. Now the
problem is they don't remember where their PST file was (it's not on
the local hard drive). Where can I find what the old PST setting was
in their old profile - registry hive? A .PRF file? Anywhere?

Thanks.
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I'd be VERY surprised if they were using a pst file on a network drive -
it's not supported by Microsoft for one thing. Are they using W2K or Windows
XP? If so, the OS sees pst files as hidden system files, so you need to
enable hidden and system files in your search.

The default location in XP is C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

HTH
 
Unfortunately the user's profile is no longer usable. We've scoured the hard
drive with an off-line data recovery tool and haven't seen a trace of a PST
file ever existing on the local drive, so that's why it's probably on a
shared drive somewhere.
 
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