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MS Office Forum / Outlook / General MS Outlook Questions / March 2008Recover emails that have been overwritten
After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking the email account settings, new emails were downloaded. Inadvertantly, I overwrote the current PST file with a back up taken before the PC format. As a result, the new emails that were downloaded were lost. Any way to recover these? Does outlook log in any other file atleast header information for emails that have been received? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Unless you configured your account to leave a copy on the server; they're gone.  SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- > After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking > the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you are saying you restored a backup which overwrote the existing pst then no > After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking > the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While > checking the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > header > information for emails that have been received? Is there a copy of the new .pst file that got overwritten in the Recycle bin (as a .pst or .bak file)? Unfortunately, no...... > > After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While > > checking the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Is there a copy of the new .pst file that got overwritten in the > Recycle bin (as a .pst or .bak file)? > After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking the > email account settings, new emails were downloaded. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. The answer to your question is no. However, if you had done some research before "restoring" the pst file, on this and other Outlook groups, you would have now not only had your old email, but all the new ones as well. You are very lucky that the process of overwriting the existing file has not (seemingly) corrupted your mail profile. For future reference: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm SignatureKathleen Orland - MVP Outlook Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ http://www.howto-outlook.com/ > After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking the > email account settings, new emails were downloaded. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. You don't need to open Outlook to check or modify your email account settings. Just use the Control Panel's Mail applet. > After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking the > email account settings, new emails were downloaded. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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