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February 4th 06, 07:18 PM
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outlook profile accidentally replaced/erased
I was installing something last night, and while exploring the CD, I
mis-clicked a file with PRF extension. At that time, some pop-up message from Outlook came up. I did not read the details and just canceled it without giving it much thoughts. This morning when I restarted my machine, my Outlook profile is entirely blank, with no contacts, no tasks, no notes, nothing, as though it was re-installed blank. The original Outlook profile as far as I can tell is still there, named "outlook.pst" under the local settings/application data, but when I tried to open it, nothing changed. I then tried to restore system to earlier restore, the first earlier one was a "System Checkpoint" from yesterday morning. When I tried to restore that, it says "operation incomplete" and the machine could not restore to that particular point after restart. I am running Windows XP Home and Outlook 2002. Any suggestion what I should do next? 
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February 4th 06, 09:16 PM
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outlook profile accidentally replaced/erased
A PST file is your data file, not a profile.
Search your hard drive for all PST files and open each until you find your data. Creating a new profile never touches your data. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "namsilat" wrote in message news  I was installing something last night, and while exploring the CD, I mis-clicked a file with PRF extension. At that time, some pop-up message from Outlook came up. I did not read the details and just canceled it without giving it much thoughts. This morning when I restarted my machine, my Outlook profile is entirely blank, with no contacts, no tasks, no notes, nothing, as though it was re-installed blank. The original Outlook profile as far as I can tell is still there, named "outlook.pst" under the local settings/application data, but when I tried to open it, nothing changed. I then tried to restore system to earlier restore, the first earlier one was a "System Checkpoint" from yesterday morning. When I tried to restore that, it says "operation incomplete" and the machine could not restore to that particular point after restart. I am running Windows XP Home and Outlook 2002. Any suggestion what I should do next?
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