mailbox.pst

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Hi everyone

Had problems some time ago with my PC, and appeared to lose my mailbox.pst. I recoverd the file, however...everytime i run outlook now i get the following message:

Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The file c:\windows\mailbox.pst is not a personal folders file..

Even if i am unable to restore the file with it's original contents....i still want to use outlook....please hel

many regard

Trev

 

[Roady [MVP]]

run scanpst.exe against the pst-file to check it for errors

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Hi everyone,

Had problems some time ago with my PC, and appeared to lose my

mailbox.pst. I recoverd the file, however...everytime i run outlook now i
get the following message:-

Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The file

c:\windows\mailbox.pst is not a personal folders file...

Even if i am unable to restore the file with it's original contents....i

still want to use outlook....please help

 

[Guest]

Thanks mate....although some data still not there, some has been restored and i can now use outlook ....

thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!

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Thanks mate....although some data still not there, some has been restored

and i can now use outlook .....