Outlook PST Recovery Issues
 

Hi, recently my Outlook PST got corrupted for some reason. I'm sure the fact it was almost exactly 2.0gb had a lot to do with this (although I thought this limit was long since fixed?).

Wonderfully, I discovered my new SyncToy backup process hadn't been
backing it up! Great.

Outlooks own recovery tool would not work, it would just fail without explaination, so I tried a number of 3rd party recovery tools. The only one I had much success with (without forking out hundreds of dollars - as a simple home user I couldn't legitimise this expense) was an application called R-Mail. However this had a side effect of tagging all of my old emails as Unsent Mail - i.e. all the email in my inbox sent to me by other people was labelled in the way you would expect email sitting in your outbox!

So my questions are twofold:

1. Is there any way to easily batch change these emails to 'received/read' rather than 'unsent'?


2. I still have a copy of the corrupted PST file - is there perhaps a better (preferably cheap or free) application I can try to recover my PST file?

3. Oh and any ideas why SyncToy, despite me telling it to backup the entire contents of My Documents, wasn't copying my Outlook PST contained therein?

I'm on Windows 7 Home and am running Outlook 2007 SP2.

Thanks!

Outlook PST Recovery Issues
 

You are running OL2007, but is your data file on created with OL2007 or one
from an earlier version?
Have you run your Drive checking utility?
The Outlook data file wont be backed up if its in use

"Jezston" wrote in message
...

Hi, recently my Outlook PST got corrupted for some reason. I'm sure the
fact it was almost exactly 2.0gb had a lot to do with this (although I
thought this limit was long since fixed?).

Wonderfully, I discovered my new SyncToy backup process hadn't been
backing it up! Great.

Outlooks own recovery tool would not work, it would just fail without
explaination, so I tried a number of 3rd party recovery tools. The only
one I had much success with (without forking out hundreds of dollars -
as a simple home user I couldn't legitimise this expense) was an
application called R-Mail. However this had a side effect of tagging
all of my old emails as Unsent Mail - i.e. all the email in my inbox
sent to me by other people was labelled in the way you would expect
email sitting in your outbox!

So my questions are twofold:

1. Is there any way to easily batch change these emails to
'received/read' rather than 'unsent'?


2. I still have a copy of the corrupted PST file - is there perhaps a
better (preferably cheap or free) application I can try to recover my
PST file?

3. Oh and any ideas why SyncToy, despite me telling it to backup the
entire contents of My Documents, wasn't copying my Outlook PST
contained therein?

I'm on Windows 7 Home and am running Outlook 2007 SP2.

Thanks!




--
Jezston

Good point - the PST was probably originally created back when I was using Office 2000.

Drive check suggests my HD is fine.

When you say 'in use' do you mean when Outlook is running? Or just generally? Hope it's not the latter!

Outlook PST Recovery Issues
 

"Jezston" wrote in message
...

Good point - the PST was probably originally created back when I was
using Office 2000.

Then an oversized PST is the likely problem. See this:
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp

When you say 'in use' do you mean when Outlook is running? Or just
generally? Hope it's not the latter!

The former.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Outlook PST Recovery Issues
 

On 3/27/2010 8:04 AM, Jezston wrote:
Hi, recently my Outlook PST got corrupted for some reason. I'm sure the
fact it was almost exactly 2.0gb had a lot to do with this (although I
thought this limit was long since fixed?).

Wonderfully, I discovered my new SyncToy backup process hadn't been
backing it up! Great.

snip

3. Oh and any ideas why SyncToy, despite me telling it to backup the
entire contents of My Documents, wasn't copying my Outlook PST
contained therein?

Not familiar with W7, but your .pst may not be in "My
Documents" (it isn't in XP or Vista). Search for *.pst,
make a note of the exact path, and then set up that path in
SyncToy. You can also back-up other Outlook files (e.g.
archives) this way.

Regards,
Aero