Good Afternoon,
I'm hoping someone can advise me how to restore my contacts list (.pst).
While cleaning up old folders in Outlook, I had a folder which "appeared" to
be empty. Unfortunately, although there were "no" contacts directly in that
folder, there were other folders within which do not show from the "view
folders" panel. I deleted this "empty" folder and lost over 800 contacts
which I need to recover. I have a backup of my .pst file but when I try to
FileOpen Data Filexxx.pst, I get the error message "File access is denied.
You do not have the permission required to access the file
E:\NewFolder\xxx.pst. This is my Outlook file but I don't know how to get
permission to open it. Can you help? I am using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
(12.0.6316.5000) Part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.

Can you help?

"padjo" wrote in message
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I'm hoping someone can advise me how to restore my contacts list (.pst).
While cleaning up old folders in Outlook, I had a folder which "appeared" to
be empty. Unfortunately, although there were "no" contacts directly in that
folder, there were other folders within which do not show from the "view
folders" panel. I deleted this "empty" folder and lost over 800 contacts
which I need to recover.

Your Deleted Items folder will have a plus sign to its left. Click that to
expand the tree and drag the deleted folder back to the prior parent folder.

I have a backup of my .pst file but when I try to
FileOpen Data Filexxx.pst, I get the error message "File access is denied.
You do not have the permission required to access the file
E:\NewFolder\xxx.pst. This is my Outlook file but I don't know how to get
permission to open it. Can you help? I am using Microsoft Office Outlook
2007
(12.0.6316.5000) Part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.

Copy it from the CD on which it resides to your hard drive, taking care to not
overwrite any existing PST. Remove the read-only attribute, then open it in
Outlook with FileOpenOutlook Data File.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

you can try a tool called Advanced Outlook Repair. You can download a
free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe . I think
it is a useful repair tool for you. It is easy to recover your PST
file by using its wizard. It is a powerful tool to recover messages,
folders and other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook
PST files.

Detailed information about Advanced Outlook Repair can be found at
http://www.datanumen.com/aor/

Wangdong