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Neil Sheppard - 12 Nov 2005 15:37 GMT

I used Outlook for a few months trying to get used to it. My main email pgm
was Outlook Express. On 10/9/05 I had to reformat my hard drive and tried to
backup my Outlook files in a number of ways that seemed like they should
work. The most prominent was displaying the email messages and copying them
to another drive directly. Somehow everything I did didn't seem to work and
I've been searching for about 3 full months of important work which I
believe is on one of my drives but I can't seem to import it into Outlook
Express or open it up.

One file that looks very promising is an "Outlook data file" which is
350,176 kb. I think I have at least some important info on it, but I can't
open it and I am not having any luck with "MS help" in finding a simple
solution to "open Outlook data file."

Does anyone have a clean solution that I might be able to use in order to
look at the files? I would appreciate any assistance.
Thanks

Neil Sheppard

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 12 Nov 2005 16:54 GMT

Take a look here, it may help:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm

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After furious head scratching, Neil Sheppard asked:

| I used Outlook for a few months trying to get used to it. My main
| email pgm was Outlook Express. On 10/9/05 I had to reformat my hard
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| Neil Sheppard

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Barry Watzman - 12 Nov 2005 17:18 GMT

With outlook (unlike Outlook express), EVERYTHING (ALL mail in all
folders, calendars, contacts, schedules, etc.) can be kept in one single
.PST file. That file can be treated just like any other data file,
moved/copied between machines, backed up and restored, etc. It's one of
the things that I really like about Outlook. The PST file can also be
put anywhere on the system (I keep mine in My Documents (which happens
to be on drive E:) in a folder \My Documents\E-Mail, which is not the
default location by any means). Do a search of your backups for a file
with a .PST extension.

> I used Outlook for a few months trying to get used to it. My main email pgm
> was Outlook Express. On 10/9/05 I had to reformat my hard drive and tried to
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> Neil Sheppard

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