In Outlook 2003 all my emails and contacts have gone

[Michael]

I switched from Outlook Express to Outlook a month ago and imported my emails
and contacts from Outlook Express. I use Office 2007 but Outlook 2003.
Everything worked all right until yesterday when I tried to open Outlook and
got a message to say it could not open as a .pst file was missing. I kept
trying and when Outlook eventually opened all the emails and contacts were
missing. In My Documents I do have an Office Data File (.pst) which I cannot
open.
Is there anyway to retrieve the missing emails and contacts?

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

did you try opening the file from within Outlook? ie File | Open | Outlook
data file?

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here:
www.judygleeson.com/articles.aspx
Canberra, Australia

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each
other?"
George Eliot

 

[Michael]

Yes, I did, but it only shows the same "folder" that is in My Documents
which, by the way, has the Microsoft Office 2007 logo beside it. When I click
that I simply open the blank 2003 Outlook. I shouldn't say blank, because I
can send and receive emails, which are stored. But nothing prior to 1 January
08 is in Outlook and I had hundreds of emails before they disappeared.

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

search your system for *.pst and make sure to include Hidden Files. The
try to open each from within Outlook. One of them will have your data if it
still exists.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here:
www.judygleeson.com/articles.aspx
Canberra, Australia

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each
other?"
George Eliot