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Thread ID: 41739	2004-01-20 23:37:00	Restoring Emails	Erin Salmon (626)	Press F1

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208871	2004-01-20 23:37:00	Hi, My PC had a booboo recently, and I managed to get my Documents and settings folder out. I've got everything back on the rails again, but I'm trying to get my emails back. I had previously had Office 2000 with Outlook installed. When I put Windows back on, I installed Office XP, but I couldn't get my emails back by pasting the files back into the appropriate folders. So I reverted back to Office 2000, but XP seems to have done something to it, and again it doesn't work. How would you advise I get around this problem? Cheers, Erin	Erin Salmon (626)
208872	2004-01-20 23:57:00	Do a search for *.pst. The Outlook email stuff has a pst extension. Open up Outlook and import this pst file and you should have your old mail, contacts etc back..	paulw (1826)
208873	2004-01-22 06:06:00	The files are still there, but unreadable, Erin? I think I'd panic.;-) Aren't there programmeswhich recover mail files? This will bump the thread up, anyway.	Graham L (2)
208874	2004-01-22 06:40:00	Look for the Inbox Repair Tool (I think it's something like scanpst.exe - most likely in the Program Files/Office folder tree). Run this and apply it to your .pst file (take a copy of the .pst first). It should repair the file and your probs will be solved.	antmannz (28)
208875	2004-01-22 10:01:00	Hi, Office XP left a lot of junk in the registry after I removed it... I managed to pick out most of this, which got me able to put my emails back in by pasting the files into: c:\documents and settings\userlogin\local settings\application data\microsoft\outlook\ However, my registry meddling had obviously had extra repercussions, because Outlook got cranky and started crashing. Eventually I decided to re-install windows again, seeing as I'd just done it anyway, which finally fixed the problem... :) Erin	Erin Salmon (626)
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