I lost all of my emails when I hit reset my default settings.Help

K

Kenzie

I was unable to use my Outlook calender.It was malfunctioning. I rang
Microsoft Tech support but we weren't able to resolve it. Without thinking I
was just looking through the options on the Outlook tool bar and saw "Restore
My Default settings"
Next thing I'm looking at Welcome to Outlook Set-Up wizard. In a cold sweat
I went through only to find a blank in-box.
Can my lost emails be restored.I use a pop-3 . I cant find any reference to
outlook files and do not know where to look anyway? HELP!!
I use XP pro with office 2003
Thanks
 
I

IWantXPBack

Unless I'm mistaken, the contents of each Outlook mailbox is stored in a file
with the .MBX extension (maybe verify this using a Google search?).

So if you use your Windows search feature to track down all files with the
..MBX extension (search on "*.mbx") you should see all mailbox files that
exist on your computer. Then I think it would just be a matter of
double-clicking each one, which should cause Outlook to open it. If that
doesn't work, you can try opening them with Notepad or Wordpad just to make
sure they contain the e-mails you are looking for.

At least, that's how I would start trying to resolve this.
 
G

Gordon

IWantXPBack said:
Unless I'm mistaken, the contents of each Outlook mailbox is stored in a
file
with the .MBX extension (maybe verify this using a Google search?).
Click to expand...

Very mistaken! Outlook EXPRESS uses one dbx file per mail folder, OUTLOOK
uses just one pst file for the whole lot....
 
G

Gordon

Kenzie said:
I was unable to use my Outlook calender.It was malfunctioning. I rang
Microsoft Tech support but we weren't able to resolve it. Without thinking
I
was just looking through the options on the Outlook tool bar and saw
"Restore
My Default settings"
Next thing I'm looking at Welcome to Outlook Set-Up wizard. In a cold
sweat
I went through only to find a blank in-box.
Can my lost emails be restored.I use a pop-3 . I cant find any reference
to
outlook files and do not know where to look anyway? HELP!!
I use XP pro with office 2003
Thanks
Click to expand...


In Outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File. You may well find another pst
file in the default location with all your data in it. Resetting Settings
should NOT have deleted any data. I suspect that what you have done is to
create a new mail profile...
 
D

DL

No, thats not correct, Outlook Express uses dbx extensions, Outlook, a
completely different app, uses a *.pst file, which is usually a hidden file
 
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