Office Oulook 2003 Archive Restore

[Guest]

I recently backed-up my entire HD so that I could move everything to a new
HD. I did a restore to the new HD, but I am now having no luck at all
restoring and viewing my archive file. I've done a scanpst.exe, tried viweing
thru Outlook but nothing happens.

There are two .pst files. One is a Personal Folder file, and then there's
another "Outllook. pst" file that's around 7.5 MGbs. Are my archived e-mails
in there? If so how do ai restore them? The "Personal Folder File" is only
around 256K

Please advise.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Your archived messages should be in a file called "Archive.pst" although you
could have changed the name to something else.

Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
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Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!

 

[Guest]

Did a search and I can't find an Archive.pst file. The only ones that are
found are the Personal Folder file and the Outlook.pst file. Since I did a
full backup can you advise as to where the archive.pst file might be?

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

To see the items in any .pst file, open it with the File | Open | Outlook Data File command, then view it with the Folder List navigation pane.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

Did a search and I can't find an Archive.pst file. The only ones that
are found are the Personal Folder file and the Outlook.pst file.
Since I did a full backup can you advise as to where the archive.pst
file might be?

Did you actually run AutoArchive? If not, there is no archive PST. Open
the Outlook.pst form within Outlook with File>Open>Outlook Data File.

 

[Guest]

Well, whenever the autoarchive message came up, I answered "yes" to it. I'm
assuming it "autoarchived" it somewhere. If this were easy I wouldn't be
asking for help.

 

[Guest]

Tried that already. Only the most recent files come up. Ones that are a
couple of days old.

 

[Guest]

I already tried that. Way back at the beginning of this search.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Well, whenever the autoarchive message came up, I answered "yes" to
it. I'm assuming it "autoarchived" it somewhere. If this were easy I
wouldn't be asking for help.

Click File>Archive and look where Outlook expects to see it.

 

[recari]

Hello there Sue,

I have taken the steps you describe below and I can see the archive.pst
file, but when I select it I receive an error message telling that the
archive.pst is not a personal folders file.

Before formating my HD I copied the file to the back up drive and now I
copied it back to the oulook folder.

What can I do to fix this??

 

[DL]

Locate scanpst.exe, the repair tool and run it on the pst, does it fix or
report anything?

 

[recari]

I just tried this and I got the following error message:

"The Inbox REpair Tool does not recognize the file C:\Cocuments and
Settings\myname\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst. No information can be recovered"

Any other suggestions??

 

[DL]

Then it would appear that either your method of copying the origonal was at
fault or pasting it caused a problem.
If you still have the origonal copy on your other drive can you run scanpst
on the origonal?
If the answer is no, then that copy is corrupt, if scanpst runs on it ok
then copy that file to your Documents folder, then open it within Outlook
It is not neccessary to locate a pst file in the OL default location