Post #30,942
3/5/02 6:48:45 PM
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They heard me from outer space as I screamed at my computer.
The old hard drive was running kind of weird, too many bad sectors been found, and the system files were damaged beyond repair. So I backed up what I could and then reformatted.
D'oh!
My "Favorites" from IE were backed up by favtool.exe, but did not contain my favorites, just a director structure of my archive folder? D'oh number 1!
My mailbox.pst file, all 29M of it, was backed up to CD-ROM, and I copied it to my hard drive, removed the read-only mark that the CDR media puts on it and tried to open it in Outlook 2000 (I used OL2000 on the last hard drive) and it tells me it isn't a PST file! Goodbye contacts, calendar, etc. I tried the Scanpst.exe program on it, but it only recovered the empty Deleted folder! I kept the emails of headhunters that had contacted me in that file, now gone forever! D'oh number 2!
I feel like I just lost contact with a lot of people, and that my job contacts are gone, unless someone knows of a way to fix PST files, or force Outlook to read them?
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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Post #30,943
3/5/02 6:58:57 PM
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Error message I got
"Properties for this information service must be defined prior to use"
Then:
"The file C:\\outlook\\mailbox.pst is not a personal folders file"
I am using Outlook 2000, Windows 98 SE, and no other software, yet.
Any ideas why this didn't work? I removed the read-only and archive attributes. Last hard drive format used 98SE and Outlook 2000, so it should have worked?
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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Post #30,954
3/5/02 9:18:30 PM
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Wild guess:mailbox.pst possibly corrupted before backing up
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #31,845
3/12/02 1:29:00 PM
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I suspect so, bad hardrive format
It may have put the exported PST file into a bad cluster or something before I burned it to a CDR disk?
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
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Post #30,975
3/6/02 4:52:16 AM
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Restoring Outlook folders.
I restored my sister's outlook folders the other week. I didn't try to make Outlook Express open the folders; I just put them in the right directory and it all came back when next I opened OE.
OTOH, if you'd been using the full version of Outlook, then you may be out of luck; I've had problems with .pst files from the full version of Outlook before.
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #30,987
3/6/02 7:56:01 AM
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You DID use the import/export tool, right?
If not, you are probably screwed.
With this much manure around, there must be a pony somewhere.
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Post #30,990
3/6/02 8:32:25 AM
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Yes I did
and I am still getting the errors.
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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Post #31,023
3/6/02 11:47:20 AM
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Download a free or demo competitor
e.g. Netscape, ...and see if you can import with Netscape then im/export back to Outlook.
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."
Jacques Servan, 1767
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Post #31,030
3/6/02 12:18:14 PM
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Netscape? Fah!
I'd rather use Mozilla, will Mozilla import? Or does it only import from the Active Outlook PST?
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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Post #31,032
3/6/02 12:25:49 PM
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Mozilla will only do the active Outlook PST
and it didn't prompt me for the other PST file. Barf! Next time I am exporting it as a Text file! I assume Netscape does the same crap as Mozilla?
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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Post #31,093
3/6/02 5:01:38 PM
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Don't know--that's why I wrote "e.g." ;)
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."
Jacques Servan, 1767
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Post #31,098
3/6/02 5:11:45 PM
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Maybe PMMail2000 will do the job.
I haven't tried it myself. It claims it'll import Outlook Express v5 and v5.5 [link|http://www.pmmail2000.com/faq2k.html#1.32|here].
PMMail is shareware.
HTH, Norm.
Cheers,
Scott.
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