For all folders, it says 0 files?
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After furious head scratching, Chad G asked:
| OMG, when I do that, it says 0 across the board... ? Where did they
| all go? why is that my PST is 18 meg in size when I right click on
| the file in my documents? My wife is going to Kill me! is there any
| way to recover the info?
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| Thanks again for the quick response.
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| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
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|| Sorry - questions asked in public are answered in public.
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|| If you have the .pst in your Outlook profile, right click on it and
|| select Properties, then Folder Size. You should be able to see if
|| and where your information is stored.
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||| I tried exactly what you said... still no worky. My outlook is
||| 2002. When I open it, opens... but as "rene 00" (the name it was
||| when we saved it to our
||| hard drive and CD.) It has what appears to of had addresses in
||| it... there
||| are a few extra folders... but i can not see any messages. Please
||| email me directly if you think you can help. chad_777 at yahoo dot
||| com. Thanks!!
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|||| Remove the .pst file from the CD to your hard drive. Remove the
|||| Read-only attribute from its properties, then open it, NOT import
|||| it, in Outlook using File->Open->Personal Folders File (or OUtlook
|||| Data File, depending on the version, which you neglected to
|||| mention.)
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|||| After furious head scratching, Chad G asked:
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||||| We copied our pst file to a CD and to a seperate hard drive years
||||| ago. Now when I try to access it, I can open it fine but there
||||| are no messages. The file is 18+ Meg, which to means the file has
||||| information in it. I then used the "SCANPST.EXE" file as the
||||| troubleshooting guide described and it didn't find any problems. I
||||| then tried to import the information from my 18meg pst... only the
||||| folders showed up...no messages. I am running Outlook 2002. please
||||| help...
|||||
||||| I really need to get the PST back. My brother in-law died and my
||||| wife had several photos of him in the PST... it has realy
||||| affected my wife. she is affraid that she has lost many photos of
||||| here brother who has passed on.
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||||| thank you.
