Hi, Russ,
Sure, I knew you would jump in here! :-)
Thanks for this hint, but of course I have already done all my home work as
far as research is concerned.
What really vexes me is the fact that after setting up Vista on my machine
and installing Office 2003 these two scanpst files actually were present in
their proper location. As I described in my first posting I did run a normal
scanpst process once, with positive results. It was only on my next attempt,
a few days later, that I discovered the two files are not present on my
machine any more. I have a faint suspicion one of the recent automatic
updates from Microsoft might have nuked them, particularly after having read
that scanpst is alleged to be incompatible with Vista.
I'm still waiting for some explanation to this strange occurrence.
Hope everything is well over there in your part of the World,
Kind regards,
Johannes
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Also, here are the default locations for the file:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272227/en-us
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"CHELLO" wrote in message
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Originally I had installed Win XP and Office 2003 on my computer.
Recently I bought Vista and re-installed my Office 2300. Everything has
been running correctly since.
A few days ago however I had some trouble with Outlook and ran
scanpst.exe successfully. Today, when I discussed some technical problems
with a friend of mine, to my great surprise I cannot find scanpst.exe any
more. It is definitely nowhere on my computer (I'm no newbie, by the way,
so I do know how and where to search!!).
I managed to retrieve scanpst.exe from my Office installation CD. When I
try to run it it complains it cannot find scanpst32.dll. Another intense
search on my machine, this time for that *.dll file, brought no result.
And here comes the next surprise: On the installation CD this *.dll file
is also not present! Was it created automatically during the installation
of Office?
What or who removed these two *.pst files from my machine? Could one of
the recent updates automatically performed by Microsoft be the culprit?
Some browsing in the Web led me to a few postings where people mentioned
the fact that scanpst.exe is not compatible with Windows Vista. What is
true about this, and what would be the proper procedure on my current
system should I ever want to repair a *.pst-File? Did my first -
successful! - activation of scanps swap the files?
Anyway, I'm completely at loss. and I would be extremely grateful for any
advice.
Kind regards,
Johannes