Lost a Folder - HELP !

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Jan Groshan

Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal folders called
"Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now it's gone!
Can I retrieve the folder somewhere ? (Outlook 2007 - Windows XP Pro)
 
Jan Groshan said:
Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal folders called
"Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now it's gone!
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Open the folders which are around your missing folder. It happens
sometimes that a folder is moved to another by drag-n-dropping
accidentally.
 
Tried that....without success....



Michael said:
Open the folders which are around your missing folder. It happens
sometimes that a folder is moved to another by drag-n-dropping
accidentally.
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No, it wasn't in the deleted items folder....but I also have the program set
to empty the deleted items on exit. I'm not on an exchange server. Am I
s-o-l ?


Diane Poremsky {MVP} said:
is it in the deleted items folder? if not, probably not.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm

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Jan Groshan said:
Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal folders
called "Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now
it's gone! Can I retrieve the folder somewhere ? (Outlook 2007 - Windows
XP Pro)
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Read this: http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm

MAKE A BACKUP of your PST before doing anything to it.

Jan said:
No, it wasn't in the deleted items folder....but I also have the program
set to empty the deleted items on exit. I'm not on an exchange server. Am
I s-o-l ?


Diane Poremsky {MVP} said:
is it in the deleted items folder? if not, probably not.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm

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Jan Groshan said:
Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal folders
called "Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now
it's gone! Can I retrieve the folder somewhere ? (Outlook 2007 -
Windows XP Pro)
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal folders called
"Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now it's gone!
Can I retrieve the folder somewhere ? (Outlook 2007 - Windows XP Pro)
Click to expand...


Consider the possibility that you may have accidentally dragged it to
some other folder, and it's now a subfolder of that folder. If you
look around, you may find it.
 
If you use advanced find and use a word or message subject as the search
term, do you get any hits?

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After furious head scratching, Jan Groshan asked:

| I've already searched. It's nowhere to be found !
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| || On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:55:26 -0700, "Jan Groshan"
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||| Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal
||| folders called
||| "Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now it's
||| gone!
||| Can I retrieve the folder somewhere ? (Outlook 2007 - Windows XP
||| Pro)
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|| Consider the possibility that you may have accidentally dragged it to
|| some other folder, and it's now a subfolder of that folder. If you
|| look around, you may find it.
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|| Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 
Then it sounds like your folder is permanently gone. Of course, you make regular backups, right? ;)

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After furious head scratching, Jan Groshan asked:

| Tried that too ... but nothing !
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| || If you use advanced find and use a word or message subject as the
|| search term, do you get any hits?
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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|| After furious head scratching, Jan Groshan asked:
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||| I've already searched. It's nowhere to be found !
|||
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||| |||| On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:55:26 -0700, "Jan Groshan"
||||
||||| Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal
||||| folders called
||||| "Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now
||||| it's gone!
||||| Can I retrieve the folder somewhere ? (Outlook 2007 - Windows XP
||||| Pro)
||||
||||
|||| Consider the possibility that you may have accidentally dragged it
|||| to some other folder, and it's now a subfolder of that folder. If
|||| you look around, you may find it.
||||
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|||| Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
|||| Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 
Since you've already tried all of the obvious stuff...is it possible
that it was part of another PST file and that you've closed that file?
Have you searched your hard drive for *.PST (Make sure to include hidden
folders) to see if there are add'l PST files on your system?

Also, I think you're learning the value of backups. :( Sorry!

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Well, irregular backups..... my bad !



Then it sounds like your folder is permanently gone. Of course, you make
regular backups, right? ;)

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After furious head scratching, Jan Groshan asked:

| Tried that too ... but nothing !
|
|
|
| || If you use advanced find and use a word or message subject as the
|| search term, do you get any hits?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Jan Groshan asked:
||
||| I've already searched. It's nowhere to be found !
|||
|||
||| |||| On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:55:26 -0700, "Jan Groshan"
||||
||||| Don't know how it happened, but I had a folder in my personal
||||| folders called
||||| "Travel" where all my travel-related email was directed and now
||||| it's gone!
||||| Can I retrieve the folder somewhere ? (Outlook 2007 - Windows XP
||||| Pro)
||||
||||
|||| Consider the possibility that you may have accidentally dragged it
|||| to some other folder, and it's now a subfolder of that folder. If
|||| you look around, you may find it.
||||
|||| --
|||| Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
|||| Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 
I got so freaked when I discovered the file was lost I did a back-up of the
remaining files and over-wrote the older back-up...dumb, I know ! Anyway, if
I had restored the older back-up, I would have lost my more recent emails
so, in retrospect, thank goodness it wasn't a folder that contained things I
didn't have hard copies of.
 
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