Thanks for the response, I ran scanpst on the archive.pst and outlook.pst
files, three times each and no errors were reported for any of the scans.
Those are the only *pst files that the W2K search utility returned.

Is there anything else I could try?

Thanks.rdm

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
If you rely on data for business, especially, not having backups is a
recipe
for disaster, but I guess you know now.

Initially try running the repair tool, scanpst.exe on the pst's (with OL
closed) run it several times.

"David Mursch" wrote in message
...
Hi - I Use Outlook with W2k My system recently
locked up, and I closed Outlook from Task Manager. Now it opens,
does a scan of the archive.pst, and immediately locks up.

When I closed OL with Task Manager, it was in the
process of recieving an email, and I think that may be the problem. I
have
tried deleting the 'view' file, moving the archive and contacts files,
restarting, rebooting etx. but none of that worked. I did recieve the
offending email from the earthlink server ysubng OE, thinking if I got
it off the server that would free up OL, but that didn't help either.
I also put in the original Office Professional CD that I used to install
the
program in the first place and ran the utility that checks for errors in
Office programs and that didn't help.

I am thinking maybe I will have to do a re-install, but that makes me
nervous because I don't want to mess up the hundreds of contacts and the
myriad of business emails I have in there. I am self employed and
losing
any of thant would be a big big problem.

Can you help?

.rdm


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