Big MDBVU32 disaster! Expert help required!

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Feathers - 16 Mar 2008 15:15 GMT

Hello all,

I had an e-mail with a big attachment stuck in my Outlook 2003 outbox. I was
using MDBVU32 to delete the message (as I have done successfully before) and
then disaster struck!

I accidentally called the "EmptyFolder" procedure on the "Top of Personal
Folders" folder. I thought I had lost everything, e-mails, calendar,
contacts...EVERYTHING!

However, the .pst file is still the same size as it was before, which makes
me believe that all my information is still there. Nothing appears however in
MDBVU when I try to go into the "Top of Personal Folders" folder.

Is it possible that I just deleted the "links" to all my e-mails, contacts
etc. and is there some way of telling the .pst that the files are still there
and that I just need to re-link them?!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Sam

P.S. There's no recent backup of the .pst in case anyone as wondering!

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neo [mvp outlook] - 16 Mar 2008 17:29 GMT

I would try the method listed at the bottom of this link.

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm

ps - stop using the pst with outlook and when using the steps above, do it
on a copy of the pst.

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> P.S. There's no recent backup of the .pst in case anyone as wondering!

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Feathers - 16 Mar 2008 18:51 GMT

Incredible!

Suprisingly easy and extremely effective! Thank you very much! I won't be
doing that again!

> I would try the method listed at the bottom of this link.
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> > P.S. There's no recent backup of the .pst in case anyone as wondering!

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