my business computer is not on corporate server and uses home xp
version. the 'mail' icon in the control panel is only for setting up
email 'accounts'. how do i "tell it" to use new profile? also as
noted in first post the reason for this whole issue is that backup
sited a corrupted file and Inbox Repair Tool kept freezing when I
clicked on repair.
tomorrow i go into office and have to make decison what to do. do i
just put the original 'outlook.pst' back into the 'outlook folder' and
hope that outlook recognizes it and doesn't duplicate the info that is
already in outlook?
i am an intermediate user and am stymied by all this...also don't
understand all your suggestions because i don't have particluar files
or folders.
i do appricate your interest and support throughout.
Alan
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
Use the Mail icon in Control Panel to create a new profile. For your
Personal Folders file, simply tell it to use your original PST file, which
should still be intact. Repair it with the Inbox Repair Tool first to be
sure it contains no errors.
Import and Export is a poor way to back up PST files. Each time you do it
you invite data corruption. Use Import and Export only when you need to
convert your PST file to some other format.
For backup purposes, simply save PST files to another location to reuse if
necessary.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
alan said:
Yes i still have original .pst. how do i create a new outlook profile?
and how do i get data from the original .pst into the new profile?
also by copying i will still have the damaged portion of file...no?
also, i had been instructed by microsoft technician to do the export
thing...lesson learned...but what is purpose of export?
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
Good grief. What a mess.
Do you still have your original PST?
If so just create a new Outlook profile and use that PST.
Never export or import to backup PST's. Just copy and reuse. Now you see
why.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
i created seperate individual .pst files through file-export etc. so
now i have a folder with 15 .pst files. i thought that outlook would
recreate a new master .pst on startup (after removing and renaming
original .pst, then i would just import each .pst into the new master.
now i have all the files in...but still cannot backup...get file
corrupted message. so now i want to find delete etc.
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
Why are you importing the backup?
Just configure Outlook to use it.
Does your backup PST contain errors?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
was having problems starting up outlook 2000 (win xp)...finally
started in safe mode, worked fine..then at week end when 'backup
add-in' kicked in said it couldn't backup, because files corrupted.
ran scanpst but kept freezing when clicked on repair (1 file had
problem)...
created new individual .pst files in folder on 'd' drive, then removed
outlook.pst to desktop folder and renamed. then deleted backup (bak)
(have 1 week old copy on removable)...then imported files back
in
to
outlook...thought i was gold...but two things: 1. same problem with
backup and 2. notice that calendar et al aren't synchronizing with
palm pilot....want to delete current .pst and redo
import....did
disk
search but cannot find new .pst anywhere, not in application
data/microsoft/outlook or anywhere else ...weird...any ideas?-
