That's a great resource - thanks again. I guess where I am confused is that
this was a 2+ gig pst file (Outlook 2000 SR-1) and now Windows says it has a
size of zero bytes.
Outlook says there is "no usable information in the file" when I run
scanpst.exe.
Why would the file now have nothing in it?
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
When you say it is probably a couple of gigs, is this the older 97-2002
style .pst file? If yes, you need to run a crop tool on it to reduce it to
a lower size so you can get at your mails.
See
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm
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After furious head scratching, Reactor asked:
| Thanks for the response Milly.
|
| I have identified and located all of my PST files. The one that I
| need to recover was pretty big - probably a couple gigs - but now
| Outlook says it's zero bytes.
|
| I even tried doing a system restore to the day before this latest
| "crash" and that didn't change a thing with regard to the pst file.
|
| Any ideas, anyone?
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | How many .pst files do you have on your system? Use Windows search
| to find them all, then open each one until you find the one that is
| your default. (Enable searching hidden files in Windows search.)
|
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| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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| After furious head scratching, Reactor asked:
|
|| Hi,
||
|| So, XP goes out and updates itself, then restarts itself, while I was
|| away from the computer. Outlook 2000 was running when she shut down.
|| This has happened before, and sometimes it damaged my pst. So I'd
|| run scanpst and fix everything right up.
||
|| But THIS time, I can't repair my pst, becuase the Inbox Repair Tool
|| says it's a zero-byte file and has no usable information in it.
||
|| Is there any hope of recovering from this? I use it to get my POP3
|| mail on my personal machine.
||
|| Thanks.
