Outlook 2003.
I had about 20 folders in outlook. I was cleaning out my outlook getting rid
of things I thought were trash and deleted too many folders and emptied my
deleted items bin. 15 days later I realized my mistake. So I went to a
backup 30 days old and did a restore but for some reason even when I do a
restore it still shows my current data. I took the current PST file and
renamed it. When I opened up Outlook it couldnt find the data file. So I did
another restore to a different location. I pointed Outlook to that new
location to the restored file from 30 days ago. Guess what...same
information. I am not sure how. I know its 30 days old because I physically
had to retrieve the tape from offsite to do the restore.
"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Chris Peikert wrote:
On 9/1/2006 I backed up my PST file.
Describe exactly how you did this. Also state your version of Outlook.
On 9/26/06 I deleted a bunch of
folder out of my email and screwed it up so I decided to restore my
old PST file from backup. So I labeled the current pst file to
outlook.pst.old and then restored the PST file from 9/1/2006.
State exactly how you did this. Did you simply rename the existing PST
and then give the packup PST the name the existing one had? Oops. Mail
profile corruption ahead.
When I
opened my Outlook back up the folders are still missing. I checked
the data path and its pointing to the correct PST file. What gives?
Where are the restored folders? The PST file shows its 260MB and when
i go through the folders there is no more than 50MB of information.
Where is the other 210MB of stuff?
Try creating a new mail profile now and point it at the PST you wish to
use. See if that makes a difference.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm . Of course, some
versions of Outlook (Outlook 98 and 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode) don't
allow your create a new mail profile without messing with the registry,
but since you didn't specify your version of Outlook, no one can know
whether that applies to you or not.
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Brian Tillman