Yes, finding and "reconnecting" the pst file solved most of the problems.
My email accounts were not reestablished though. I've begun readding them
to
outlook and I've started looking for an alternative to MS Outlook for
email
handling. Nothing like this event is described "on the tin" which is
probably
why so MANY similar situations occur as indicated on multiple discussion
threads in this forum. Only someone with in-depth knowledge of
Microsoft's
design of Outlook data would consider its contents as a "setting".
Nowhere
in the domain of detecting and repairing would any typcial user imagine
the
horror of opening Outlook to a blank slate after repairng.
Sorry I disagree, when you first run detect and repair by default it DOES
NOT tick the second box, it only ticks the restore my shortcuts. You must
of ticked the box. If you then tick the second box is does say it will go
back to restore the default settings. Well if you think about the word
default it means goes back the same as it came or first installed for
everyone. So bearing this in mind default settings to me would indicate as
per first installed which would imply you need to then re-configure which is
exactly what you need to do. As in most things if your not sure what the
options mean, why not research both options*BEFORE* you run the detect and
repair? And if you think of the word repair, it would also indicate I
should check I have a backup/know where my data is before proceeding incase
the REPAIR does not work.
I might be a techie, but I am not someone who has in-depth knowledge of
Outlook. I do however read error messages, and dialog boxes to try and
understand what it means first and if I am not sure I research before going
further, if more users did this and not clicked on things there were unsure
of there wouldn't be as many repeated problems.
