lets just forget about backup that is not important, it contains the same
info the outlook.pst has, but the rest I do like you did, I copied data
folder to drive D:
for safe measures (so i thought) I also made a zip file containing the pst
files, but I left the original pst's in the folder, so I have the original
files, and the zip containing copies of the orig files. I then copied the
whole folder to the D drive.
Unplugged D: from the system because this computer is striped
raid,(windows
installer gets confused when dealing with raid on my system) Reformatted,
installed windows, office, and some other programs. When I tried to
import
the files, copy the files, replace the current (fresh outlook) files with
the
ones I had been using.
It worked the time before when I reformatted...
The raid has nothing to do with this, I have ran Raid Striped setups for
years
Russ Valentine said:
I still have no idea what you did to create this file.
I back up files by copying them to a safe location.
What did you do?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
ScwidviciouS said:
I made the pst file in the same version listed above. re-installed the
software I already have (Office XP's version of outlook)
About outlook says "Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6626) SP3"
The auto backup I am refering to is not a plugin or anything, I just
scheduled it to backup outlook once a week incase a reason came about I
would
not lose much.
Currently though I have lost it all.
The thing is this makes no sense to me, I have ran the SCANPST.EXE to
no
avail.
I even copied the existing outlook folder to the other hard drive along
with
the backup pst files before this format, so it should all still work. I
even
zipped a set of them so I have like a bunch of copies of the same
files,
but
they all seem to have corrupted.
:
In what version of Outlook did you create this data file?
What are "auto backups?"
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
message
I recently reformatted my system and re-installed outlook and all of
the
updates.
About outlook says "Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6626) SP3"
I ran auto backups. Right before I reformatted I personally made a
fresh
backup of my files. Now when I try to import my pst files, or even
try
to
point outlook to those files, I get this message:
"Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. The file C:\....Outlook.pst is not
compatible with this version of the Personal Folders information
service.
Contact your administrator"
Any suggestions to at least retrieve my e-mail would be appreciated.
Thanks
