Outlook Problem During migration from office 2000 to office 2007

[apondu]

Hi,

My name is Govardhan.

I have some problem i feel people here can help me out.

I had office 2000 installed in my system and i had configured outlook

with 2 mail id's of mine and was using it as my default mail.

Yesterday we had brought a new version of Microsoft Office 2007.
In a bit of hurry i did these things.

1. I immediately uninstalled present version of office 2000 without backing up my mails.
2. I installed Office 2007
3. I open my outlook
4. It migrated the settings of my previous outlook
5. It poped a message asking "DO u wish archieve old mails ?".
6. In a bit of hurry i closed that message by pressing the close button

i didn't click neither yes or no
7. My outlook is opened. Now the real problem starts.
8. The mail-id configured were there but none of my previous mails are there now. I have lost all of them.

Can anyone please help me out. How can i recover all my previous mail.

I know i should have backed up my mails but in a hurry i didn't do this.

Now i don't knw how to proceed and recover those old.

I did one more mistake when it asked me for archieving my mails i didn't choose the option but jst closed the messsage without selecting the option yes or no.

Can anyone help me out in recovering my old files.

Waiting for the response

my mail-id is mailto:[email protected]

Regards,
Govardhan

 

[K. Orland]

You have to associate your PST file with your new profile. Open Outlook and
click File > Open and browse to your PST file. You don't need to back up your
email, contacts, etc. it's all there in your PST.
The PST file may be hidden, use Windows Explorer to unhide hidden files and
folders and also view known file extensions as well. Then open Outlook and
click on File > Open, browse to your PST file and open it.
This should do the trick for you.
Let me know how you make out.
PS archive simply archives your older mail into a file called archive.pst.
If you don't do it, it's not an issue unless your PST grows to be very large.
If there are more steps involved or more cautions for you, someone else will
come along and post any hints about Outlook 2007 that I don't know of or
haven't heard of yet.

 

[apondu]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply,

Won't that previous .pst be overwritten with the new pst file when a office of the newer version is created. I am afraid of this. If its not over written and if it is saved some where then can u let me know where will the older versions pst files be copied by default when a newer version office is installed.

Thanks for the reply

Regards,
Govardhan

 

[K. Orland]

Search for the old PST in that case and rename it. The default name is
usually outlook.pst. Rename it and then open Outlook and use File > Open.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Won't that previous .pst be overwritten with the new pst file when a
office of the newer version is created.

It shouldn't. Instead Outlook should create outlook(2).pst. Look in your
mail profile and verify the name of the current PST.

 

[apondu]

Hi,

Thanks for all the help people here are providing its really nice.

I had one more clarification to be made, is there any posibility that all the configuration settings like my mail-id being being migrated from older version of office 2000 to new version of office 2007 and by any chance missing out only my mails during migration.

I am asking this because this is what as happened. both my mail-id configurations have been migrated but non of my mails are present now i lost all of them.

It would be great if some one could reply

Thanks for the help

Regards,
Govardhan.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I had one more clarification to be made, is there any posibility that
all the configuration settings like my mail-id being being migrated
from older version of office 2000 to new version of office 2007 and
by any chance missing out only my mails during migration.

I am asking this because this is what as happened. both my mail-id
configurations have been migrated but non of my mails are present now
i lost all of them.

As Ms. Orland says, chances are that you're not using your original PST.
You must locate that in order to add it back to your mail profile.