Boppy wrote:

So what to do? If I restore the backup I'm just back to having
everything sit in that annoying lost and found folder. Is there any
way to have Outlook treat my new Inbox as the real deal and let me
apply rules?

Were I faced with this, I'd make this old PST the delivery location again
and start Outlook with the /resetfoldernames command switch if my version of
Outlook supported it. (Who can say whether or not yours does, since you
never mentioned your version.) If that didn't work, then, still using the
old PST as delivery, I'd try exporting the rules, switching to a new PST,
and imprting the rules again.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]