Outlook - Archived e-mails missing

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DeonH

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Hi there and thank you so long for your help.

We have a small family business and have been advised to host our own mail. :(

My HDD crashed and I had to do the usual installations after that. BUT, now I cannot seem to find any of my archived mail. I hope it is on the server. I have admin tights on our server and hope the mails are there. Every single mail older than 60 days is gone.

Your suggestions to a solution will be close to a miracle at this stage.

Thank you, Deon
 
The archive folders is by default stored on the local harddrive. Do you still have the crashed harddrive? Is the server running Small Business Server? If so, do you use roaming profiles. Do a search of your local and server drives for files *.pst
 
Franna.
Yes, we are Running Small Business Server. I still have the crashed drive but also have tried to format it. :( I will search for *.pst files and hope for the best. I wonder why Outlook is storing by default the archived mails on local?
 
if you used a recovery program Try browsing to ,windows7-office2010 -->C:\Users\Deonh\Documents\Outlook Files -default archive for outlook2010 unless you have specified where you saved it

xp - 2010 --> C:\Document and settings\Deonh\My documents\outlook files\archive.pst

I would suggest using "recover my files v.4" - it has proven very use-full in recovering pst.s
 
DeonH said:
Franna.
Yes, we are Running Small Business Server. I still have the crashed drive but also have tried to format it. :( I will search for *.pst files and hope for the best. I wonder why Outlook is storing by default the archived mails on local?
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If and when you find the PST files, you can attach them to your Outlook profile to view the mails within
 
DeonH said:
I have admin tights on
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man-tights.jpg

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Do not understand why you would want to try and format the crashed harddrive. But it should still be possible to do data recovery on the drive and recover the missing archive.pst file.

Check on another workstation/user where the Outlook archive.pst file is saved.

Where are you located?
 
Franna said:
Do not understand why you would want to try and format the crashed harddrive. But it should still be possible to do data recovery on the drive and recover the missing archive.pst file.

Check on another workstation/user where the Outlook archive.pst file is saved.

Where are you located?
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The HDD crashed after a power failure and windows got corrupted.

I will check on other stations.
Situated in Kempton Park, Johannesburg.

I'm considering buying "Recover my files". It states that it can recover even after format, crash and so on.
 
Whatever you do , do not write any further data on that harddrive (format reload windows) , the space that is currently occupied by your PST will be marked as available to be written to , once you write over data it becomes very difficult to impossible to recover.
Put the harddrive in another working PC as a slave and then try recover whatever data with recovery utils you can get your hands on.
 
Do a search of your local and server drives for files *.pst before going any further. The archive file is maybe in the roaming profiles on the server.
 
Franna.

Some feedback.

Handy Recovery1.0 did not pick up the hard drive. With your assistance I have managed to recover all needed files from the old drive. Thank you very much for replying to my post and helping me out. Now I only need to import the pst file.

Have a nice day. Deon
 
I have just tried to import the files - they are corrupted. :cry: Any suggestions on how to fix the files? They are big, 3GB and I am sure there must be something in there.
 
DeonH said:
I have just tried to import the files - they are corrupted. :cry: Any suggestions on how to fix the files? They are big, 3GB and I am sure there must be something in there.
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There is a ScanPST utiliy included with Office that I have once used a while back. Can't remember any more details, but read here.
 
Thank you. Scanpst is currently doing it's thing. :D I hope for the best.
 
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