Importing .pst file

[Brian Tillman]

Thats an awful lot of friends around the world I've suddenly lost!

I'm sure they're still your friends even though you may have lost their
addresses.

 

[Trevor]

File>Open>Outlook Data File.

I get 'properties for this informatioon service must be defined prior to
use'

 

[Trevor]

The information assistant (paper clip annoying thing) says the backup.pst
file is not a personal folders file.

 

[Gordon]

Import and export are what you do to convert to another file format.
You have no need to convert to another file format.
All you needed to do is copy your Outlook Data File.

The major problem is, there's nothing in any of the dialog boxes that TELLS
you that........

 

[Trevor]

Where is this backup file?

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Its on a CD andf also copied to the desk top - 403 mb

 

[Gordon]

I get 'properties for this informatioon service must be defined prior to
use'

Where is this backup file?

 

[Brian Tillman]

The information assistant (paper clip annoying thing) says the
backup.pst file is not a personal folders file.

Then it has been damaged. See if SCANPST.EXE can read it (although I doubt
it will).

 

[Trevor]

Then it has been damaged. See if SCANPST.EXE can read it (although I
doubt it will).

Well it said it had repaired it, but when I opened it with Outlook, there
were no folders.

 

[Gordon]

Its on a CD andf also copied to the desk top - 403 mb

have you removed the Read-Only attribute? (Right-click-Properties)

 

[Brian Tillman]

Well it said it had repaired it, but when I opened it with Outlook,
there were no folders.

There should be at a minimum one folder: Deleted Items.

 

[_]

Why people believe they can only save their .pst file by

importing/exporting
is the 9th wonder of the world.

Nah...9th wonder is a rapper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Wonder

But seriously there seems to be a goodly amount of documentation stating
that importing/exporting is the way it's properly done.
In an effort to help my son, I recently went through a college course text
book written by a so-called MS Outlook "Expert" where this is stated many
times in the book. A PHD professor, no less.
It's appears to be a somewhat common misconception.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Indeed there is. If you only knew how hard we've tried to get Microsoft to
retract that erroneous information. They remain deaf and dumb to the fact
that import/export is too deeply flawed to be useful. It isn't even safe.
Use it only if you want to remain at the peril of data loss.

 

[jd]

don't listen to everything a ms user tells you.
look for a program called trinity if you want to recover files from a
formatted drive.
actually the link is here...
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12
you will have to make a bootable cd.
chances of recovery are based on how much data has been written to the drive
after it was formatted.
no chickens, virgins or tattoos needed.
good luck;