Missing PST file - Help!

[mjones]

Hi,

My entire 25MB personal file is gone! All the mail and contacts that
organize my independent consulting business.

I ran a chkdsk and the drive never recovered from it. It keeps running
chkdsk when I boot.

So now I've install the drive as a slave drive to see the data, but the
..pst file is missing. It's also missing from my backup! I've search
all drives for .pst and only find one that's a year old.

Does anyone have any recovery ideas. I would be willing to pay for
some recovery software if any existed.

Thanks for listening to me whine,

Michele

 

[Judy Gleeson, MVP Outlook]

first question - when you searched for .pst did you include hidden files in
the search? .psts are hidden.

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Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

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[mjones]

Yes, I did include hidden files.

first question - when you searched for .pst did you include hidden files in
the search? .psts are hidden.

--

Judy Gleeson, MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

 

[mjones]

Oh my lord, I got it! My mistake, it's 930MB.

My programmer boyfriend and I looked in the exact place 10 times
(looking for hidden files too). Who knows what worked. I'm taking
several backups of it and probably should defrag or something to be
sure.

Finally explorer search found it, but then in Outlook > Open Outlook
Data File couldn't see it until I restarted. Anyway, I've got it in
Outlook. Yeah, yeah!

Now I just have to figure out how to get rid of the old Personal Folder
and make this one the main one.

Thanks for you're help,

Michele

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[Brian Tillman]

Now I just have to figure out how to get rid of the old Personal
Folder and make this one the main one.

With Outlook closed, move the old PST to your current good hard drive,
taking care to NOT overwrite any PST you already have on that disk. Use
Control Panel's Mail applet to add the old PST into the mail profile (with
the Data Files button) and make it your delivery location (with the E-mail
Accounts button). Start Outlook and you'll be back to normal.