Compacted emails - recoverable?

[Duane Goertson]

Hi,

I recently started to use Outlook and it asked me each time that I closed it
if I wanted to 'compact' my emails. I said no for a couple of weeks. No
problem. However, I got tired of it asking each time that it started &
decided to click on the box where it asked me to click if I wanted to stop
that window from appearing. When I went to close the window I clicked on OK
thinking that all that would happen would be that the window would no longer
appear.

Sadly, it has removed all of my email folders except for the main ones. Is
there some way that I can recover the 'compacted' emails.

Thank you.

Duane
[email protected]

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,

I recently started to use Outlook and it asked me each time that I
closed it if I wanted to 'compact' my emails. I said no for a couple
of weeks. No problem. However, I got tired of it asking each time
that it started & decided to click on the box where it asked me to
click if I wanted to stop that window from appearing. When I went to
close the window I clicked on OK thinking that all that would happen
would be that the window would no longer appear.

Sadly, it has removed all of my email folders except for the main
ones. Is there some way that I can recover the 'compacted' emails.

Thank you.

Duane
carter1950@

I suspect you mean "archive", not compact. Open your archive.pst file and
your items should be there.

Note - posting your valid e-mail address in a newsgroup post, or in your
news account settings, is a surefire way to get spam and SWEN and other
viruses sent to you....see http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm for help
in the future.

 

[Duane Goertson]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Thank you for your reply. I've searched for 'archive.pst' without success.
The window that I OK'd did say 'compact' rather than 'archive'

I really appreciate your advice re my email address & will be 'munging' it
from now on.

Thanks.

Duane

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Thank you for your reply. I've searched for 'archive.pst' without
success. The window that I OK'd did say 'compact' rather than
'archive'

Are you sure you're using Outlook, then? Not Outlook Express? There are
separate groups for that...

microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x

Also, www.insideoe.com is useful

I really appreciate your advice re my email address & will be
'munging' it from now on.

Glad to help.

Thanks.

Duane

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

I suspect you mean "archive", not compact. Open your archive.pst
file and your items should be there.

Note - posting your valid e-mail address in a newsgroup post, or in
your news account settings, is a surefire way to get spam and SWEN
and other viruses sent to you....see
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm for help
in the future.

 

[Duane Goertson]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Actually I'm using Outlook Express for my email program but when I installed
Office 2003 Outlook was there but I never used it and I'm back to using only
Outlook Express once again. The window asking about compacting appeared
when I went to close Outlook and it removed not only the emails (and
folders) from Outlook but from Outlook Express as well.

I'll sign on to the repost my query to the Outlook Express 6 newsgroup and
see if anyone there has had a similar problem.

Again, many thanks for your thoughts & replies.

Duane


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Thank you for your reply. I've searched for 'archive.pst' without
success. The window that I OK'd did say 'compact' rather than
'archive'

Are you sure you're using Outlook, then? Not Outlook Express? There are
separate groups for that...

microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x

Also, www.insideoe.com is useful

I really appreciate your advice re my email address & will be
'munging' it from now on.

Glad to help.

 

[saisson]

After downloading Microsoft 2003....MS uses the term compacting and NOT
archiving

 

[Brian Tillman]

After downloading Microsoft 2003....MS uses the term compacting and
NOT archiving

Care to give a reference? I'd be very surprised if MS's documentation uses
"compact" when referring to "archive".

 

[saisson]

Everyone including microsoft does not know how to fix the problem.
Not quite sure what you mean by a reference, but surprised or not, the
message states "now compacting" and I was unable to stop it. It's as clear
as my inability to obtain a solution.....

 

[Brian Tillman]

Everyone including microsoft does not know how to fix the problem.
Not quite sure what you mean by a reference, but surprised or not,
the message states "now compacting" and I was unable to stop it.

That's not archiving, though, and compacting a PST won't remove folders.
Neither will archiving.

 

[saisson]

We're making progress.

My original question was:
"How do I retrieve compacted pst folders and add them back into Outlook
Express?"
A remedy would be appreciated.
M

 

[SgtRich]

We're making progress.

My original question was:
"How do I retrieve compacted pst folders and add them back into Outlook
Express?"
A remedy would be appreciated.

You can't "add a .pst file (no such things as ".pst folders") into Outlook
Express".

After your .pst file is transferred onto your hard drive (along with
Outlook, which MUST be installed), you can use Outlook Express' Import
command to import data from Outlook into Outlook Express.
--
<<<SgtRich>>>

Email Client: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
News Client (Text): Forté Agent 2.0 www.forteinc.com
News Client (Binaries): News Rover 10.1 www.newsrover.com

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

We're making progress.

My original question was:
"How do I retrieve compacted pst folders

There's no need to retreive a 'compacted' PST file - it stays open.

and add them back into
Outlook Express?"

Outlook Express doesn't use PST files. If you're using OE, you're in the
wrong newsgroup...