Why people believe they can only save their .pst file by
importing/exporting
is the 9th wonder of the world.

Nah...9th wonder is a rapper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Wonder

But seriously there seems to be a goodly amount of documentation stating
that importing/exporting is the way it's properly done.
In an effort to help my son, I recently went through a college course text
book written by a so-called MS Outlook "Expert" where this is stated many
times in the book. A PHD professor, no less.
It's appears to be a somewhat common misconception.

Indeed there is. If you only knew how hard we've tried to get Microsoft to
retract that erroneous information. They remain deaf and dumb to the fact
that import/export is too deeply flawed to be useful. It isn't even safe.
Use it only if you want to remain at the peril of data loss.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"_" wrote in message ...
Why people believe they can only save their .pst file by
importing/exporting
is the 9th wonder of the world.

Nah...9th wonder is a rapper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Wonder

But seriously there seems to be a goodly amount of documentation stating
that importing/exporting is the way it's properly done.
In an effort to help my son, I recently went through a college course text
book written by a so-called MS Outlook "Expert" where this is stated many
times in the book. A PHD professor, no less.
It's appears to be a somewhat common misconception.

don't listen to everything a ms user tells you.
look for a program called trinity if you want to recover files from a
formatted drive.
actually the link is here...
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.ph...=1&front_id=12
you will have to make a bootable cd.
chances of recovery are based on how much data has been written to the drive
after it was formatted.
no chickens, virgins or tattoos needed.
good luck;


"Trevor" wrote in message
. com...
It's been reformatted and reinstalled with Windows.

Any chance of using recovery software?