Vista - Outlook 2007 lost emails when moved to Vista

Hi there,

I'm new to this forum (and Vista!) and have a slight problem...

I had a PC with XP and Office 2007 installed - this PC recently died (motherboard went) so I bit the bullet and bought a new PC with Vista Home Premium on it.

Once up and running and with Office 2007 installed, I put the hard drive from my old PC in, copied the Outlook.pst and Outlook.nk2 files over.

When I started Outlook up again on the new PC, my email folders were there and everything looked fine until I noticed that the newest email was May 2007 - it appears to have lost everything for the last year.

I even tried doing an import from the pst on the old drive but it came up with the same emails.

Some background:
I used to have Office 2003 on the old PC which was then upgraded to 2007 (roughly a year ago) - did 2007 introduce a different storage file and my emails since that point are in there instead of the PST file?

I've searched the hard drive for *.pst but only this one showed up.

Any help/advice would be greatly welcomed - there are numerous emails I need back that contain software licence keys etc

Cheers,
Matt

You can try to use ScanPST.exe to repair your .pst file...
This is a Microsoft tool installed with Outlook.

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If you still have the drive, do an advanced search on

*.pst

ensuring that you include non-indexed and hidden files in the search..


and include no

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Hi.

Unfortunately I already did that, nothing else found :-(

Cheers,
Matt

Cheers, I'll give that a try - I'd be surprised if it was corrupted but you never know!

M

So in essence, you transferred the wrong file and can't find the right file?
How can we help you?
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When you upgraded OL2003 to OL2007 under normal circumstance the upgrade
would have connected to your origonal pst file.
The first pst created is named outlook.pst, by default, subsequently created
pst files are named outlook1.pst again by default.
Check the name of your current pst.
When you copied your old pst to Vista did you ovewrite any existing pst? -
as this is a good way to corrupt a pst.
You are sure you searched your old drive, to include hidden files, for pst?


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Hi Russ,

I'm 99% sure it's the right one - I was kind of hoping there may have been another reason (such as finding out that OL2007 stored them somewhere else) as to why my emails have gone and that someone on here would have been able to tell me.

Matt

Hi there,

On the new PC, I installed OL2007, copied over my PST file and then started OL.

Just in case that did something wrong, I've tried to do an import from my file but with the same results.

Does anyone know if there's a config file that I can look for on the old PC's drive that would contain the location of the pst on that installation? I could then open that config and go and look in the location it states.
I'm guessing it's in the registry in which case, is there a way of exploring a registry file taken from another machine? (obviously without exporting from RegEdit since I can't boot the old PC)

Cheers,
Matt

The default locations being;

a.. Make sure you include hidden and system files and folders when
searching for pst-file
b.. By default it is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
For Windows Vista the default is
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\
c.. You can also locate the file by using
Rightclick the root folder (probably Outlook Today)-> Properties-> button
Advanced-> field Filename
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