Outlook .PST file - Missing emails...

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My first posting, I hope one of you can help me.

My question is in regards to Outlook 2003 on an XP machine.

For reasons that we won't go into, I decided to erase and recreate my user
account. I backed up my documents, but because my email account is on IMAP,
I decided to skip that step. Big mistake. My outgoing email was being
stored on the SENT ITEMs mail folder which was NOT being synchronized with
the IMAP folders. A thousand messages, which I really need back. Okay, I
run a data recovery tool and extract my .PST file. I repaired it with
SCANPST.EXE and imported it and later also tried FILE/OPEN/OUTLOOK DATA FILE.


The frustrating thing is that the .PST also only contains my IMAP files and
the SENT ITEMs folder remains empty. Is there a step I'm missing or is there
another file that I need to track down in order to get my files back or am I
doomed?

regards,

Dave
 
You've recovered the wrong pst-file. You might want to look if you can
recover another one.
 
I thought of that, but every .pst file I recovered was just another version
of my IMAP emails. Is it possible that the file I'm looking for does not
actually possess the .pst suffix?

Dave


Roady said:
You've recovered the wrong pst-file. You might want to look if you can
recover another one.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Icicle said:
My first posting, I hope one of you can help me.

My question is in regards to Outlook 2003 on an XP machine.

For reasons that we won't go into, I decided to erase and recreate my user
account. I backed up my documents, but because my email account is on
IMAP,
I decided to skip that step. Big mistake. My outgoing email was being
stored on the SENT ITEMs mail folder which was NOT being synchronized with
the IMAP folders. A thousand messages, which I really need back. Okay, I
run a data recovery tool and extract my .PST file. I repaired it with
SCANPST.EXE and imported it and later also tried FILE/OPEN/OUTLOOK DATA
FILE.


The frustrating thing is that the .PST also only contains my IMAP files
and
the SENT ITEMs folder remains empty. Is there a step I'm missing or is
there
another file that I need to track down in order to get my files back or am
I
doomed?

regards,

Dave
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Only when you were using with an Exchange server but then the messages would
be kept on the Exchange server.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Icicle said:
I thought of that, but every .pst file I recovered was just another
version
of my IMAP emails. Is it possible that the file I'm looking for does not
actually possess the .pst suffix?

Dave


Roady said:
You've recovered the wrong pst-file. You might want to look if you can
recover another one.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Icicle said:
My first posting, I hope one of you can help me.

My question is in regards to Outlook 2003 on an XP machine.

For reasons that we won't go into, I decided to erase and recreate my
user
account. I backed up my documents, but because my email account is on
IMAP,
I decided to skip that step. Big mistake. My outgoing email was being
stored on the SENT ITEMs mail folder which was NOT being synchronized
with
the IMAP folders. A thousand messages, which I really need back.
Okay, I
run a data recovery tool and extract my .PST file. I repaired it with
SCANPST.EXE and imported it and later also tried FILE/OPEN/OUTLOOK DATA
FILE.


The frustrating thing is that the .PST also only contains my IMAP files
and
the SENT ITEMs folder remains empty. Is there a step I'm missing or is
there
another file that I need to track down in order to get my files back or
am
I
doomed?

regards,

Dave
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