restoring Outlook

[AKA gray asphalt]

Can I restore "sent messages" from an archive
It's a restored Drive image file. I'm not sure
where to look and what the extention on the
files will be.

Thanks.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Do you have any PST files on that image?

See if any of the info here helps in the event you do find the file(s):
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm

 

[AKA gray asphalt]

I do not know about PST files. When I open the image
it looks like a folder structure, the same as if I opened
"My Computer" on an active system. I can not, however,
search for file extensions unless I restore the whole or
part of the image. That's probably what I should do,
huh, then search for VST ... ?

If I were looking on my current system, where would the
sent messages be, please? Thanks.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

I'd restore at least the profile directory.

 

[AKA gray asphalt]

I'd restore at least the profile directory.

I have no idea what any of this is. What is the profile
directory? If I restore the windows directory or should
it be the program directory will this be sufficient?
Thanks/

 

[Brian Tillman]

I do not know about PST files.

A PST file is a Personal Folders file. It is a file in which Outlook keeps
its folders.

When I open the image
it looks like a folder structure, the same as if I opened
"My Computer" on an active system.

Except in Outlook it's not a file system. It is a single file upon which
Outlook imposes a structure to give the appearance of a file system

I can not, however,
search for file extensions unless I restore the whole or
part of the image. That's probably what I should do,
huh, then search for VST ... ?

That's what you'll have to do unless the tool you used to make the image
allows selective restoration. The default location of the PST is
x:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Applicaton Data\Microsoft\Outlook
for Windows 2000 and XP and either C:\Windows\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook or C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook (I
can't remember right now) for Windows 98 or ME.

 

[AKA gray asphalt]

The pst file restored. Now I'm not sure what to do to get
the sent messages into outlook. They don't import like
regular messages, do they?

 

[Brian Tillman]

The pst file restored. Now I'm not sure what to do to get
the sent messages into outlook. They don't import like
regular messages, do they?

Do not import. Open the PST with File>Open>Outlook Data File and move or
copy the messages you want. WHen done, you can close that PST again by
right-clicking on it's name in the Navigation Pane (or Outlook Bar,
depending on your version - the bar down the left side) and choosing Close.

 

[AKA gray asphalt]

When I click on the .pst file it doesn't open into some kind
of viewer which is what it's supposed to do, right? Is this
viewer available in OE? I followed a lind to outlook help
at Microsoft but it assumed the file would open with the
viewer ... Thanks again for you help

 

[Brian Tillman]

When I click on the .pst file it doesn't open into some kind
of viewer which is what it's supposed to do, right?

If you are in Outlook and open the PST, you will see its contents. Outside
of Outlook itself, there is no PST viewer.

Is this
viewer available in OE?

OE is not Outlook and it can't deal with any file created by Outlook (except
for extracted attachments, of course, but those aren't Outlook files then).

 

[AKA gray asphalt]

If you are in Outlook and open the PST, you will see its contents. Outside of Outlook itself, there is no PST viewer.


OE is not Outlook and it can't deal with any file created by Outlook (except for extracted attachments, of course, but those
aren't Outlook files then).

I'm using OE. The pst file is an OE file. I have Outlook but
haven't used it. It's not installed. I wonder if I can open put
the pst file in the default directory and rename it to whatever
the default name is and export the messages revert to my
current pst file and import the messages.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you are using OE, then you do not have a .pst file. .pst files are
created and used ONLY by Outlook, not Express. To be able to view the
contents of the .pst file, you must open it from within Outlook.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, AKA gray asphalt asked:

| ||
||| When I click on the .pst file it doesn't open into some kind
||| of viewer which is what it's supposed to do, right?
||
|| If you are in Outlook and open the PST, you will see its contents.
|| Outside of Outlook itself, there is no PST viewer.
||
||| Is this
||| viewer available in OE?
||
|| OE is not Outlook and it can't deal with any file created by Outlook
|| (except for extracted attachments, of course, but those aren't
|| Outlook files then). --
|| Brian Tillman
|
| I'm using OE. The pst file is an OE file. I have Outlook but
| haven't used it. It's not installed. I wonder if I can open put
| the pst file in the default directory and rename it to whatever
| the default name is and export the messages revert to my
| current pst file and import the messages.

 

[AKA gray asphalt]

It must have come from when I did use Outlook. Am I screwed
in trying to retrieve OE messages from a directory of old OE stuff?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

The .pst file does NOT contain any OE information, only Outlook. Look for
..dbx files for old Outlook Express items.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, AKA gray asphalt asked:

| It must have come from when I did use Outlook. Am I screwed
| in trying to retrieve OE messages from a directory of old OE stuff?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || If you are using OE, then you do not have a .pst file. .pst files
|| are created and used ONLY by Outlook, not Express. To be able to
|| view the contents of the .pst file, you must open it from within
|| Outlook.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, AKA gray asphalt asked:
||
||| ||||
||||| When I click on the .pst file it doesn't open into some kind
||||| of viewer which is what it's supposed to do, right?
||||
|||| If you are in Outlook and open the PST, you will see its contents.
|||| Outside of Outlook itself, there is no PST viewer.
||||
||||| Is this
||||| viewer available in OE?
||||
|||| OE is not Outlook and it can't deal with any file created by
|||| Outlook (except for extracted attachments, of course, but those
|||| aren't Outlook files then). --
|||| Brian Tillman
|||
||| I'm using OE. The pst file is an OE file. I have Outlook but
||| haven't used it. It's not installed. I wonder if I can open put
||| the pst file in the default directory and rename it to whatever
||| the default name is and export the messages revert to my
||| current pst file and import the messages.

 

[AKA gray asphalt]

I renamed and moved the dbx files, after I found them,
to the current directory. Thanks for the help. The dbx
were in:

X:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Local Settings\Application Data\
Identities\{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXX}\
Microsoft\Outlook Express

What would I gain by reinstalling Outlook? It uses OE for newsgroups,
no? That would be one area that I'd like to see some improvements,
if Outlook as them.

Again thanks for the help. : -)

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

outlook is primarily the client for Exchange server, a corporate
combination. Corporations do not want their employees browsing news groups
for the latest from alt.binaries.sex.gerbils. It will probably never
include a native news reader - think of all that Outlook does now. The
extra bloat is unnecessary when Microsoft provides a perfectly good news
reader in Outlook Express. Why reinvent the wheel?

Plus, imagine the outcry from all of the third party news readers should
Microsoft integrate a news reader into Outlook. I can just imagine the
lawyers' fees now.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, AKA gray asphalt asked:

| I renamed and moved the dbx files, after I found them,
| to the current directory. Thanks for the help. The dbx
| were in:
|
| X:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Local Settings\Application Data\
| Identities\{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXX}\
| Microsoft\Outlook Express
|
| What would I gain by reinstalling Outlook? It uses OE for newsgroups,
| no? That would be one area that I'd like to see some improvements,
| if Outlook as them.
|
| Again thanks for the help. : -)
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || The .pst file does NOT contain any OE information, only Outlook.
|| Look for .dbx files for old Outlook Express items.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, AKA gray asphalt asked:
||
||| It must have come from when I did use Outlook. Am I screwed
||| in trying to retrieve OE messages from a directory of old OE stuff?
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| |||| If you are using OE, then you do not have a .pst file. .pst files
|||| are created and used ONLY by Outlook, not Express. To be able to
|||| view the contents of the .pst file, you must open it from within
|||| Outlook.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, AKA gray asphalt asked:
||||
||||| ||||||
||||||| When I click on the .pst file it doesn't open into some kind
||||||| of viewer which is what it's supposed to do, right?
||||||
|||||| If you are in Outlook and open the PST, you will see its
|||||| contents. Outside of Outlook itself, there is no PST viewer.
||||||
||||||| Is this
||||||| viewer available in OE?
||||||
|||||| OE is not Outlook and it can't deal with any file created by
|||||| Outlook (except for extracted attachments, of course, but those
|||||| aren't Outlook files then). --
|||||| Brian Tillman
|||||
||||| I'm using OE. The pst file is an OE file. I have Outlook but
||||| haven't used it. It's not installed. I wonder if I can open put
||||| the pst file in the default directory and rename it to whatever
||||| the default name is and export the messages revert to my
||||| current pst file and import the messages.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm using OE. The pst file is an OE file.

No, it's not. PSTs are strictly Outlook files.