Why are the most recent emails missing after restoring outlook?

[Guest]

I have recently had to restore outlook on a new windows installation. Before
the old installation was terminated and the partition formatted, the only pst
was saved to a cd. When I reinstalled and reconnected the new outlook
installation to the backed up .pst file, the most recent emails i.e. the past
2 months, were missing. In fact the whole "Inbox" folder was missing. Older
emails were contained in the folder "Recieved Mail". Any ideas how I can get
the most recent emails back, and why this has happened???

 

[Guest]

If File > Archive was used the 'Archive Older than' date may have caused this
problem. I can't think of a way to get them back as the drive has been
formatted.

Although there are Undelete programs.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are you sure it was the only pst? Did you open the backup directly or
import?