Diamontina Cocktail wrote:

A better answer than Russ Valentine's but still not right in the
cases to which I referred. As you seem to understand, nothing is
impossible with Windows. You just have to accept that you have to
expect the unexpected.

I think you have to accept that you're attributing the cause to the wrong
source. I have no doubt that your PST was deleted as you claim, but not
because you uninstalled Outlook.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]