Cannot restore Inbox

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simon

Hi,
I have accidently deleted the Inbox folder, and have closed outlook so
it has also gone from Deleted Items.
I have tried using the Inbox Repair Tool. Although this did report
errors and "fixed them", after running the repair tool outllook would
not open at all. It would just crash each time I tried to open it.

I had taken a backup prior to running the repair tool, so I am back to
square one: Outllook opens fine, but I do not have an Inbox, so when I
try a "send and receive" I get an error because there is no Inbox to
put new emails into.

I am using Outlook 2003 on win XP Home.

Any ideas?
 
simon, you wrote on 29 Jan 2007 03:36:40 -0800:
I have accidently deleted the Inbox folder, and have closed outlook so
it has also gone from Deleted Items.
I have tried using the Inbox Repair Tool. Although this did report
errors and "fixed them", after running the repair tool outllook would
not open at all. It would just crash each time I tried to open it.

I had taken a backup prior to running the repair tool, so I am back to
square one: Outllook opens fine, but I do not have an Inbox, so when I
try a "send and receive" I get an error because there is no Inbox to
put new emails into.
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Start Outlook once with the parameter /resetfolders

Start | Run | outlook.exe /resetfolders
 
Thanks Christian,
Have tried that with no joy unfortunately.
Bets solution seems to be to create a whole new data file and copy
folders across. Very longwinded solution to what seems like a simple
problem
Many thanks for the advice.
 
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