Lost email messages

[Kurt Giesselman]

Today, after being gone on business for a week, I opened Outlook 2003. It
showed 121 messages to be downloaded. The download seemed to be going fine
but when it completed there were no new emails in my inbox and Outlook 2003
reported that I had errors in my .pst file. I ran the Inbox repair tool
which says it fixed everything. Yet those 121 messages are gone

I renamed outlook.pst to outlook.pst.bak, renamed my week old back up file
to outlook.pst and tried to redownload the messages. No luck. A week's
worth of email gone? That sucks

Did they get wiped off the server when I downloaded? Any way to get them
back? ISP is Roadrunner.

Froggie

 

[Brian Tillman]

Today, after being gone on business for a week, I opened Outlook
2003. It showed 121 messages to be downloaded. The download seemed
to be going fine but when it completed there were no new emails in my
inbox and Outlook 2003 reported that I had errors in my .pst file. I
ran the Inbox repair tool which says it fixed everything. Yet those
121 messages are gone

Make sure your View is "Messages", that you don't have a filter, and that
you're not sorting on the icon.

Did they get wiped off the server when I downloaded? Any way to get
them back?

Probably and probably not.