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Old January 21st 09, 03:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Arthur MacLeod
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After ten years of letting Outlook manage archiving, I notice I have loast
all my archived email. I'm not sure when the last time was that I looked up
an old message, perhaps a half year ago. How do I go about recovering lost
data. The outlook pst would be on an external hard drive where it is intact.
The archive.pst would be on the default C: drive location where it is empty.
Would I be able to recove lost data, perhaps deleted, with a utility. Where
do I start?

Arthur
Vista-64, Office 2007, Dell Precision Platform

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Old January 21st 09, 09:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
DL
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Presumably you've searched your sys, to include hidden files, for *.pst?
As you must have upgraded outlook, in this time, did you also create new
data files, both Archive and current, in the 2003/2007 format or are you
still using data files created pre 2003version?

You cannot really lose a file, completely from the sys, without some form of
user intervention. If it was deleted, there are recovery programs but they
work best if used ASAP after any deletion, as the continued use of a PC
likely means any residue of the file on the hd will have been overwritten

As with any data held on a PC, a data backup is allways wise.

"Arthur MacLeod" wrote in message
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After ten years of letting Outlook manage archiving, I notice I have loast
all my archived email. I'm not sure when the last time was that I looked
up an old message, perhaps a half year ago. How do I go about recovering
lost data. The outlook pst would be on an external hard drive where it is
intact. The archive.pst would be on the default C: drive location where it
is empty. Would I be able to recove lost data, perhaps deleted, with a
utility. Where do I start?

Arthur
Vista-64, Office 2007, Dell Precision Platform



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Old January 21st 09, 04:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Arthur MacLeod
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I did find some PST files. Some are from earlier backups when switching the
default location from the C:\ drive to an external data drive. I need to
combine the data from each to get the whole. What is a good practice for
efficently combining them?

Thanks,
Arthur

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
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Presumably you've searched your sys, to include hidden files, for *.pst?
As you must have upgraded outlook, in this time, did you also create new
data files, both Archive and current, in the 2003/2007 format or are you
still using data files created pre 2003version?

You cannot really lose a file, completely from the sys, without some form
of user intervention. If it was deleted, there are recovery programs but
they work best if used ASAP after any deletion, as the continued use of a
PC likely means any residue of the file on the hd will have been
overwritten

As with any data held on a PC, a data backup is allways wise.

"Arthur MacLeod" wrote in message
...
After ten years of letting Outlook manage archiving, I notice I have
loast all my archived email. I'm not sure when the last time was that I
looked up an old message, perhaps a half year ago. How do I go about
recovering lost data. The outlook pst would be on an external hard drive
where it is intact. The archive.pst would be on the default C: drive
location where it is empty. Would I be able to recove lost data, perhaps
deleted, with a utility. Where do I start?

Arthur
Vista-64, Office 2007, Dell Precision Platform




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Old January 22nd 09, 02:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
DL
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You open them all within Outlook (FileOpenData File...browse to the
location) then drag and drop to whichever set of Personal Folders you want
the data in

"Arthur MacLeod" wrote in message
...
I did find some PST files. Some are from earlier backups when switching the
default location from the C:\ drive to an external data drive. I need to
combine the data from each to get the whole. What is a good practice for
efficently combining them?

Thanks,
Arthur

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
Presumably you've searched your sys, to include hidden files, for *.pst?
As you must have upgraded outlook, in this time, did you also create new
data files, both Archive and current, in the 2003/2007 format or are you
still using data files created pre 2003version?

You cannot really lose a file, completely from the sys, without some form
of user intervention. If it was deleted, there are recovery programs but
they work best if used ASAP after any deletion, as the continued use of a
PC likely means any residue of the file on the hd will have been
overwritten

As with any data held on a PC, a data backup is allways wise.

"Arthur MacLeod" wrote in message
...
After ten years of letting Outlook manage archiving, I notice I have
loast all my archived email. I'm not sure when the last time was that I
looked up an old message, perhaps a half year ago. How do I go about
recovering lost data. The outlook pst would be on an external hard drive
where it is intact. The archive.pst would be on the default C: drive
location where it is empty. Would I be able to recove lost data, perhaps
deleted, with a utility. Where do I start?

Arthur
Vista-64, Office 2007, Dell Precision Platform






 




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