how to restore what "detect and repair" destroyed and removed

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When I clicked 'detect and repair' in Outlook, I thought it would detect
problems and repair them. Instead, 'detect and repair' wiped everything and
gave me a new Outlook. Can I restore the original version and retrieve my
calendar?
 
Look for .pst files on your computer (enable searching hidden/system files)
and then open it in Outlook. D&R never destroys data.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, jerome mandel asked:

| When I clicked 'detect and repair' in Outlook, I thought it would
| detect problems and repair them. Instead, 'detect and repair' wiped
| everything and gave me a new Outlook. Can I restore the original
| version and retrieve my calendar?
 
Milly Staples said:
Look for .pst files on your computer (enable searching hidden/system files)
and then open it in Outlook. D&R never destroys data.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Thanks, Milly. I searched for .pst files and came up with several titled
'Outlook.' The largest, 1536 KB, is probably the one I want. But what does
it mean to "open it in Outlook"? I go into Outlook, click on "File," click
on "Open," click on "Outlook Data File," select the 1536 KB Outlook file, and
nothing happens. I come up with a blank screen. Is there some other way to
"open it in Outlook"?

Thanks, you're great.

Jerry
 
A blank screen or a blank .pst file? Have you tried running scanpst.exe
against the file?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.


After furious head-scratching, jerome mandel asked this group:

| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Look for .pst files on your computer (enable searching hidden/system
|| files) and then open it in Outlook. D&R never destroys data.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Thanks, Milly. I searched for .pst files and came up with several
| titled 'Outlook.' The largest, 1536 KB, is probably the one I want.
| But what does it mean to "open it in Outlook"? I go into Outlook,
| click on "File," click on "Open," click on "Outlook Data File,"
| select the 1536 KB Outlook file, and nothing happens. I come up with
| a blank screen. Is there some other way to "open it in Outlook"?
|
| Thanks, you're great.
|
| Jerry
|
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, jerome mandel asked:
||
||| When I clicked 'detect and repair' in Outlook, I thought it would
||| detect problems and repair them. Instead, 'detect and repair' wiped
||| everything and gave me a new Outlook. Can I restore the original
||| version and retrieve my calendar?
 
Sorry: it's a blank Outlook calendar, completely virgin (just as it was after
I did "detect and repair"), as if clicking on the "Outlook" file I found in
Search accomplished nothing. And sorry to be so stupid: I don't know what
"running scanpst.exe against the file" means.
 
Search your system for scanpst.exe (inbox repair tool) and run it - ensure
you show hidden and system folders to find the .pst file.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.


After furious head-scratching, jerome mandel asked this group:

| Sorry: it's a blank Outlook calendar, completely virgin (just as it
| was after I did "detect and repair"), as if clicking on the "Outlook"
| file I found in Search accomplished nothing. And sorry to be so
| stupid: I don't know what "running scanpst.exe against the file"
| means.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| A blank screen or a blank .pst file? Have you tried running
|| scanpst.exe against the file?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
||
|| After furious head-scratching, jerome mandel asked this group:
||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Look for .pst files on your computer (enable searching
|||| hidden/system files) and then open it in Outlook. D&R never
|||| destroys data.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Thanks, Milly. I searched for .pst files and came up with several
||| titled 'Outlook.' The largest, 1536 KB, is probably the one I want.
||| But what does it mean to "open it in Outlook"? I go into Outlook,
||| click on "File," click on "Open," click on "Outlook Data File,"
||| select the 1536 KB Outlook file, and nothing happens. I come up
||| with a blank screen. Is there some other way to "open it in
||| Outlook"?
|||
||| Thanks, you're great.
|||
||| Jerry
|||
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, jerome mandel asked:
||||
||||| When I clicked 'detect and repair' in Outlook, I thought it would
||||| detect problems and repair them. Instead, 'detect and repair'
||||| wiped everything and gave me a new Outlook. Can I restore the
||||| original version and retrieve my calendar?
 
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