Lost pst file on outlook

[PriyaW]

Hi,
I am trying to recover my lost pst files. This is what happened:
I have a personal folders in outlook. I was trying to move 3 folders
from the Personal Folders List to the "Mailbox" foolder (that contains
the Inbox, Sent Items, etc.). Of course, the 3 folders were too big in
size to fit under the mailbox. So while I expected and waited for
Outlook to prompt me with a warning saying the folders cannot fit due
to size, outlook actually shifted the 3 folders partially, i.e. it
truncated the folders shfiting only few emails instead of "all" or
"none". So I have incomplete folders in the "Mailbox" while these
fodlers have disappeared from the "Personal Folders".

I wanted to know if it is possible to recover these lost emails from
the folders that were neither shifted to the Mailbox, nor are retained
in the Personal Folders. I have an exchange server. I have already ran
the "inbox reapir utility", scanpst.exe but no use. I do have an old
"outlook.ost" but I could not open it and am not sure if it will have
any traces of my personal folders.

Any assistance will be apprecaited.
Thanks!
-Priya

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,
I am trying to recover my lost pst files. This is what happened:
I have a personal folders in outlook. I was trying to move 3 folders
from the Personal Folders List to the "Mailbox" foolder (that contains
the Inbox, Sent Items, etc.). Of course, the 3 folders were too big in
size to fit under the mailbox. So while I expected and waited for
Outlook to prompt me with a warning saying the folders cannot fit due
to size, outlook actually shifted the 3 folders partially, i.e. it
truncated the folders shfiting only few emails instead of "all" or
"none". So I have incomplete folders in the "Mailbox" while these
fodlers have disappeared from the "Personal Folders".

I wanted to know if it is possible to recover these lost emails from
the folders that were neither shifted to the Mailbox, nor are retained
in the Personal Folders. I have an exchange server. I have already ran
the "inbox reapir utility", scanpst.exe but no use. I do have an old
"outlook.ost" but I could not open it and am not sure if it will have
any traces of my personal folders.

Any assistance will be apprecaited.
Thanks!
-Priya

Best to ask in an Outlook newsgroup - this one focuses on
Windows issues.

 

[Malke]

Hi,
I am trying to recover my lost pst files. This is what happened:
I have a personal folders in outlook. I was trying to move 3 folders
from the Personal Folders List to the "Mailbox" foolder (that contains
the Inbox, Sent Items, etc.). Of course, the 3 folders were too big in
size to fit under the mailbox. So while I expected and waited for
Outlook to prompt me with a warning saying the folders cannot fit due
to size, outlook actually shifted the 3 folders partially, i.e. it
truncated the folders shfiting only few emails instead of "all" or
"none". So I have incomplete folders in the "Mailbox" while these
fodlers have disappeared from the "Personal Folders".

I wanted to know if it is possible to recover these lost emails from
the folders that were neither shifted to the Mailbox, nor are retained
in the Personal Folders. I have an exchange server. I have already ran
the "inbox reapir utility", scanpst.exe but no use. I do have an old
"outlook.ost" but I could not open it and am not sure if it will have
any traces of my personal folders.

If you don't get an answer here, post in the Outlook newsgroup. I'm
sorry, but I don't know the answer to your question (or I would tell
you!) but the Outlook experts will.

microsoft.public.outlook.general

Malke

 

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