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Hello all, I'm having quite a frustrating problem. I just recently set up
Outlook 2007 to work with my two email inboxes - one a Hotmail account, the
other a generic POP3/SMTP. When asked for my name/email at the beginning, I
used my Hotmail address.
This worked fine, but when I restarted Outlook I noticed that it told me I
had to pay to use this so-called "Outlook Connector" service. Forget that!
So my next step was trying to get rid of the thing, to which I was told I
needed to set a path for some data file (under Tools->Account Settings->Data
Files tab). I'm not sure what that message really meant so I just used the
default Personal Folder(1) choice. Then I believe I deleted it.
Next I added my POP3 email manually, using the Personal Folders(1).pst file
to save under when I was asked. This inbox was getting near capacity so I
was looking forward to getting it set up to transfer all of my email to my
hard disk. The set up went smoothly, and I did a Send/Receive to get my
email. It had to download 2,500 or so messages (42mB worth) so I had to wait
a little bit.
When it was finally done, I clicked on the Inbox button to view my messages.
It was empty. Weird. I began clicking on every folder under the Mail tab
trying to find where my messages went, but to no avail. Then I noticed that
a window had popped up notifying me I had unread mail. When I clicked on
that, all my mail that I just downloaded populated the Inbox pane and I was
able to look through it. I was relieved and assumed that it was waiting on
my confirmation before populating the Inbox button.
I sifted through my email for a couple of minutes then closed Outlook. Upon
a restart, my mail was nowhere to be found. I have looked everywhere, but
nothing seems to work. I ended up browsing through my hard disk to see what
could have happened to the ~42mB worth of email. The only file big enough to
hold my email is a file called "outlook.nst", which is 57.5 mB. The Personal
Folders(1).pst file that I thought the email would have went to is only
0.5mB. Google searches of "outlook.nst" have shown a lot of info about Lotus
Notes (which I have never used). I'm pretty sure the file is generated by
the Outlook Connector.
I immediately copied the file as outlook.nst.bak and left the original where
it was. I've tried all sorts of combinations of redoing my Outlook
configurations with Outlook Connector and trying to make it get my email back
out of the outlook.nst file but to no avail so far.
I've tried to open the file manually but of course it shows up as a bunch of
scrambled unicode text. If someone could help me to rescue my emails, I
would be very thankful!
Outlook 2007 to work with my two email inboxes - one a Hotmail account, the
other a generic POP3/SMTP. When asked for my name/email at the beginning, I
used my Hotmail address.
This worked fine, but when I restarted Outlook I noticed that it told me I
had to pay to use this so-called "Outlook Connector" service. Forget that!
So my next step was trying to get rid of the thing, to which I was told I
needed to set a path for some data file (under Tools->Account Settings->Data
Files tab). I'm not sure what that message really meant so I just used the
default Personal Folder(1) choice. Then I believe I deleted it.
Next I added my POP3 email manually, using the Personal Folders(1).pst file
to save under when I was asked. This inbox was getting near capacity so I
was looking forward to getting it set up to transfer all of my email to my
hard disk. The set up went smoothly, and I did a Send/Receive to get my
email. It had to download 2,500 or so messages (42mB worth) so I had to wait
a little bit.
When it was finally done, I clicked on the Inbox button to view my messages.
It was empty. Weird. I began clicking on every folder under the Mail tab
trying to find where my messages went, but to no avail. Then I noticed that
a window had popped up notifying me I had unread mail. When I clicked on
that, all my mail that I just downloaded populated the Inbox pane and I was
able to look through it. I was relieved and assumed that it was waiting on
my confirmation before populating the Inbox button.
I sifted through my email for a couple of minutes then closed Outlook. Upon
a restart, my mail was nowhere to be found. I have looked everywhere, but
nothing seems to work. I ended up browsing through my hard disk to see what
could have happened to the ~42mB worth of email. The only file big enough to
hold my email is a file called "outlook.nst", which is 57.5 mB. The Personal
Folders(1).pst file that I thought the email would have went to is only
0.5mB. Google searches of "outlook.nst" have shown a lot of info about Lotus
Notes (which I have never used). I'm pretty sure the file is generated by
the Outlook Connector.
I immediately copied the file as outlook.nst.bak and left the original where
it was. I've tried all sorts of combinations of redoing my Outlook
configurations with Outlook Connector and trying to make it get my email back
out of the outlook.nst file but to no avail so far.
I've tried to open the file manually but of course it shows up as a bunch of
scrambled unicode text. If someone could help me to rescue my emails, I
would be very thankful!