Keeping email when deleted email account in Outlook 2003

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I recently left a company and my email account had been shut off. I removed
the email account from Outlook 2003 using the option in the Tools menu and
suddenly find that the file folder for that account, which contained 8 months
worth of correspondence has vanished. How do I get these emails back?

I do seem to still have the emails in a file in C:\Documents and
Settings\Norman Eisley\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook but
I have no idea how to reimport it into the system...nor do I understand why
turning off the account would automatically delete the mail. That's like
assuming that you are going to burn all of your old correspondence (including
legal documents and love letters) when you change your mailing address.
 
Was your data in an Exchange mailbox originally, or is the file on your hard
drive a .PST file? If it's a .PST, just copy it to a CD or something, then
you can easily copy it to another machine running Outlook, make sure it's not
marked read-only, and open it in Outlook there. If it's an .OST file (an
offline storage file for Exchange) you have a problem if the profile
associate with the file has been deleted -- you'd need to use a 3rd-party
recovery program to get the data back.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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