Outlook 2002 Recovery

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Paul W. Jones

I had a problem or conflict with a WinXP Service Pack
update that seems to have made a WinXP partition
unusable, rebooting just runs into errors, various
recovery attempts did not work, so I went to a backup and
put that on another hard disk. The backup was a bit old,
so it doesn't have my current Outlook 2002 mail. The
corrupted disk is still readable, it just won't boot, so
what I'd like to do now is figure out how to copy my
Outlook 2002 data over the recovery directories. I
cannot run export/import on the corrupted partition,
since WinXP won't run there, but I would think if there
was a way of identifying the old data, I could just xcopy
it over. Any hints on where Outlook 2002 stores all of
its data?

Thanks.
 
The default location is C:\documents and settings\<username>\local
settings\application data\microsoft\outlook. It's a hidden file/folder, so
make sure you're searching in hidden folders.
 
it stores all it's data in a *.pst file. The default location is
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\APPLICATION DATA\Microsoft\Outlook

don't copy it over, just use import and point to your pst file from your old
installation

Good Luck!
 
no - import is bad - you lose custom views and forms. just copy it to the
new drive and use it as the default pst.
 
true, but it's easier. Otherwhise he'll have to (re)name the pst-file to his
newly created one. Also he could loose e-mail that he already had received
in his new pst-file. Of course he could always import those again in his
just copied pst-file. Like I said, it's a bit easier and it I didn't really
got the feeling that he had created custom forms.
 
No, it's not. The data file is created in your profile which copies back and
forth to a server if you use roaming profiles so therefor it can never be in
the folder "Local Settings"
 
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