Is my Outlook data really gone after using PSTBACKUP?

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When using PSTBACKUP for Outlook 2003 it appears that I mistakenly set the
“backup TO†path to the folder and file of my Outlook data for a
NON-administrator user from the Outlook application of an administrator user.
I thought the field was the “backup FROM†file path. Oops.
I had installed PSTBACKUP for the administrator user and thought I was
changing the path of the Outlook file that I wanted to backup from to the
file path used by the NON-administrator user application so that it would
backup Outlook and the backup option would be available in the
NON-administrator user Outlook application.
There is no significant data in the Outlook application of the
administrative user. After the backup I launched the Outlook application for
the NON-administrative user expecting to find my usual data, 15-years worth
of notes, but it was empty.
I have searched for other PST files and find none with recent data in them
only 256k data files with no data and a 256k backup with no data in it. Is
there anyway to recover the data that I appear to have lost?
I do find three additional personal folders in the NON-administrator’s
Outlook, but no data in the folders.

How should I set up PSTBACUP for a NON-administrator user?
 
It sounds like you overwrote the existing .pst file of the non-admin user with the backup file for the admin user, when what you should have done was log in as the non-admin user and invoke the File | Backup command from Outlook. I hope you previously backed up the data on that machine, because that's the only way you'll be able to recover the .pst file that was overwritten.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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