Exported mail lost! Please help!

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I used Outlook's "Import and Export" option to export all my emails to a pst file before reinstalling windows. But after xp was reinstalled and I tried to import the emails, I found that I can only restore emails in the "Inbox" up to some months ago. That is, I lost emails from about September 2003 up to yesterday! However, all emails in "Sent Items" can be imported successfully including those sent some days ago. I did this backup and restore several times before without encountering such problem. Could someone shield some light on this so that I can recover my lost emails
Thanks in advance

Daniel
 
I don't know exactly what happened, but generally, it's a bad idea to use
export as if it were a backup. Instead, just make a copy of your entire
default PST file.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Daniel said:
I used Outlook's "Import and Export" option to export all my emails to a
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pst file before reinstalling windows. But after xp was reinstalled and I
tried to import the emails, I found that I can only restore emails in the
"Inbox" up to some months ago. That is, I lost emails from about September
2003 up to yesterday! However, all emails in "Sent Items" can be imported
successfully including those sent some days ago. I did this backup and
restore several times before without encountering such problem. Could
someone shield some light on this so that I can recover my lost emails?
 
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