Missing Mail

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Gys van Schalkwyk

Hi, I am using Win Xp and Office 2003
My system crashed, and I copied everything from my HD to
another HD, for a backup

I am using Outlook 2003, Where can i go and look for the
mail, inbox, sent items. etc.

Pls help, I have important mail,

Thanx

Gys
 
The easy way is to do a search for your pst and pab in the folder that you
copied everything into.
 
Please find or search *.pst files from your HD and then
copy files to another computer in order to add personal
folder or archive folder in Outlook.

Jeff
 
Hi,

Thanks the .pst files helped.
but now i am looking for yhe mails, that was still in my
inbox, all this years mail, The .pst, only had last years
mail in it, I havent yet exported my mail this year

Thanx

Gys
 
frank caraballo said:
The easy way is to do a search for your pst and pab in the folder
that you copied everything into.
Click to expand...

You keep saying "pab", but Outlook from 2000 on doesn't use the PAB.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
Gys van Schalkwyk said:
Thanks the .pst files helped.
but now i am looking for yhe mails, that was still in my
inbox, all this years mail, The .pst, only had last years
mail in it, I havent yet exported my mail this year.
Click to expand...

ALL mail is kept in a pst, including your inbox. If you canot find any pst
file with anything in it newer than last year, your inbox is gone. Make
sure you enable hidden files and folders when searching. The default
location is
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook or
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
The reason I keep saying pab is because when you setup outlook 2000 for the
first, is because you have an option to continue using the old way pab or
the new way contacts. And since I don't know what the previous setup was, I
just through it in.
 
As an extension of this discussion, I have a problem that I'm hoping some
kind soul can help me rectify.

I keep all my emails in one .PST file on a HDD in a removeable caddy and
transfer it between PCs at home and at work. Until October 2003 this has
worked wonderfully, but since October something somewhere changed and I am
now unable to see some messages, depending on which PC the .PST file was
active in when the messages were received. The only major things that have
been done to the systems in question is the application of Windows service
packs and critical updates.

This has now come to a head because last week I had to reinstall Windows on
the work PC, and no matter what I do, or who I log in as, I just cannot find
any of the messages from November 2003 onwards. Even booting the original
version of the OS doesn't want to let me see those messages.

I'm running XP Pro SP1a on the work machine and XP Pro SP1 on my home
machine. As far as I can tell, all critical updates have been applied to
both machines.

Does anyone know if there are any mechanisms that might prevent access to
individual emails in a single .PST on a per-user basis? My suspiscions are
that my domain/user accounts are different and that is now causing these
problems. I know the messages are in there as I was reading them just last
week, and the HDD caddy was completely removed when I reinstalled Windows.

If you are aware of any tools or MS tricks that might help me out, I would
be most grateful to you for sharing your knowledge.

Best Regards,
Justin.
 
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