Question about PSTs

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Sanjay Puri [MSFT]

I had made some backups of my Contacts and Inbox folders (separately) in the
form of PSTs in Nov 2003.

I'm now trying to use those PSTs to recover my address book. However, as I
try to import these PSTs into my freshly flattened and rebuilt PC, I get the
message that the PST file is not a valid Personal Folder file. I'm getting
the error with both my Inbox as well as my Contacts PSTs

Has anyone encountered such a thing before? Is there any fix to this?

Thanks in advance,

Sanjay Puri
 
Recovered them from a CD? Then copy them to your harddisk first and remove
the "Read Only" file attribute. Instead of importing you're better of
connecting to the pst-file by File-> Open-> Outlook Data File... and move
them to your default folders.

If it's still nagging not to be a valid pst-file you can run scanpst.exe
against it to check it for errors.

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www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
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Tried both options. I get the same message - "<file> is not a personal
folders file"

Anything else I could try?

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Roady said:
Recovered them from a CD? Then copy them to your harddisk first and remove
the "Read Only" file attribute. Instead of importing you're better of
connecting to the pst-file by File-> Open-> Outlook Data File... and move
them to your default folders.

If it's still nagging not to be a valid pst-file you can run scanpst.exe
against it to check it for errors.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

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Sanjay Puri said:
I had made some backups of my Contacts and Inbox folders (separately) in
the form of PSTs in Nov 2003.

I'm now trying to use those PSTs to recover my address book. However, as
I try to import these PSTs into my freshly flattened and rebuilt PC, I
get the message that the PST file is not a valid Personal Folder file.
I'm getting the error with both my Inbox as well as my Contacts PSTs

Has anyone encountered such a thing before? Is there any fix to this?

Thanks in advance,

Sanjay Puri
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What version of Outlook? Outlook 2003?

If you burned/backed-up the files while Outlook was still running the files
got corrupted beyond repair for scanpst.exe. You can use the following third
party tool to find out whether something is still recoverable;
http://officerecovery.com/outlook/

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

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Sanjay Puri said:
Tried both options. I get the same message - "<file> is not a personal
folders file"

Anything else I could try?

--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
Roady said:
Recovered them from a CD? Then copy them to your harddisk first and
remove the "Read Only" file attribute. Instead of importing you're better
of connecting to the pst-file by File-> Open-> Outlook Data File... and
move them to your default folders.

If it's still nagging not to be a valid pst-file you can run scanpst.exe
against it to check it for errors.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

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Sanjay Puri said:
I had made some backups of my Contacts and Inbox folders (separately) in
the form of PSTs in Nov 2003.

I'm now trying to use those PSTs to recover my address book. However, as
I try to import these PSTs into my freshly flattened and rebuilt PC, I
get the message that the PST file is not a valid Personal Folder file.
I'm getting the error with both my Inbox as well as my Contacts PSTs

Has anyone encountered such a thing before? Is there any fix to this?

Thanks in advance,

Sanjay Puri
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