Due to my hard drive crash I had to reinstall Outlook 2007. I had luckily my
Outlook.pst file saved on another drive. I tried importing the pst file, but
somehow no Inbox emails and subfolders and Sent files were imported. Only a
few deleted items files. Calendars, Contacts and Notes imported fine. After
that I noticed that the original file date has been changed, but the folder
size is still 361 MB. I tried copying and replacing the PST file in my
profile but the file looks the same and the same as above are missing. When I
check folder size in Outlook it is small.

When I run scanpst.exe on my 361 MB file it lists all folders and over 1000
emails which seems to be correct for my original file and says there is no
error.

I ran Stellar Phoenix PST Repair tool demo scan and it was able to see all
emails and folders. But to be able to recover them completely through
Stellar Phoenix I would have to pay $129.

Is there a way to recover those emails without having to buy this software?
Any free tools?

I know I screwed by trying to import and should have just copied it over,
but what happened is already done.

Thanks for any help.

Andrea, you wrote on Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:58:01 -0700:

but somehow no Inbox emails and subfolders and Sent files were
imported. Only a few deleted items files. Calendars, Contacts and
Notes imported fine. After that I noticed that the original file date
has been changed, but the folder size is still 361 MB.

For that reason it is never a good idea to import pst-files. Simply open
the old pst-file instead and copy the content to the new one:

File | Open | Outlook-Datafile

I tried copying and replacing the PST file in my profile but the file
looks the same and the same as above are missing. When I check folder
size in Outlook it is small.

Copying the old pst-file over the new one is a bad idea as well.

Is there a way to recover those emails without having to buy this software?

First try to open the file as described above.

--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net

Thanks for your email. I tried open it, as you indicated - Should have
mentioned it in my email - but it shows again only the few emails in the
deleted file. No Inbox emails, no subfolders and no Sent files.

Do you have any other recommendations?

Thank you.

"Christian Goeller" wrote:

Andrea, you wrote on Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:58:01 -0700:

but somehow no Inbox emails and subfolders and Sent files were
imported. Only a few deleted items files. Calendars, Contacts and
Notes imported fine. After that I noticed that the original file date
has been changed, but the folder size is still 361 MB.

For that reason it is never a good idea to import pst-files. Simply open
the old pst-file instead and copy the content to the new one:

File | Open | Outlook-Datafile

I tried copying and replacing the PST file in my profile but the file
looks the same and the same as above are missing. When I check folder
size in Outlook it is small.

Copying the old pst-file over the new one is a bad idea as well.

Is there a way to recover those emails without having to buy this software?

First try to open the file as described above.

--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net

"Andrea" wrote in message
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Thanks for your email. I tried open it, as you indicated - Should have
mentioned it in my email - but it shows again only the few emails in the
deleted file. No Inbox emails, no subfolders and no Sent files.

Do you have any other recommendations?


What's the size of the pst file that you have saved from the other HDD?

The file size of the pst file is 361 MB. Does this help? Thanks.

"Gordon" wrote:

"Andrea" wrote in message
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Thanks for your email. I tried open it, as you indicated - Should have
mentioned it in my email - but it shows again only the few emails in the
deleted file. No Inbox emails, no subfolders and no Sent files.

Do you have any other recommendations?


What's the size of the pst file that you have saved from the other HDD?

"Andrea" wrote in message
...
The file size of the pst file is 361 MB. Does this help? Thanks.

"Gordon" wrote:

"Andrea" wrote in message
news
Thanks for your email. I tried open it, as you indicated - Should have
mentioned it in my email - but it shows again only the few emails in
the
deleted file. No Inbox emails, no subfolders and no Sent files.

Do you have any other recommendations?


What's the size of the pst file that you have saved from the other HDD?




How did you save it (i.e. was Outlook closed) in the first place, and have
you imported it at some stage?