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lost pst help needed.

  • 15-05-2006 8:40am
    #1
    Apip99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭


    Morning all,

    Hope some one can help me.

    I’m leaving me job at the end of this week and I was busy delegating all of my personal files and cleaning up the PC, and some where along the line I think I delegated my .pst, or I’ve done some thing so that when I logged on to out look this morning it came up with a message “unable to display the selected folder or item. File access denied. You do not have permission to access the file C:\Email\phil.pst”

    I know you 1st thoughts maybe that I’ve been looked out of the mail server. But that would not be the case. (Very small company, and I know more about PC’s than any of them would. Which isn’t a great deal)

    When I look for the C:\Email\phil.pst in the C:\Email there are no .pst’s there.

    Has any one any thought of how and where the PST may be? Or how to find it. I’ve done a search and nothing comes up.

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    dave13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭dave13


    open a command prompt and type "dir *.pst" . If there's a pst file on your PC it'll tell you where it is.Have you checked the recycle bin. Otherwise its probably gone.


  • #3
    esskay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭esskay


    Type "dir *.pst /s" to get it to search all subdirectories


  • #4
    Apip99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Apip99


    Great thanks,

    I've found an Archive.pst from 2005.

    I just need to get the outlook up and running, and it would be fine to use the archive file. But when I click open Outlook, its defailting to the lost .pst. Is there a way a simplton can get it to open the archive.pst?

    Thanks you for you time on this.

    Pip


  • #5
    dave13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭dave13


    in outlook go to File-> data file management. Remove the old one and add the new one. Should be fine.


  • #6
    Apip99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Apip99


    Hi there,

    Trouble is I can't open outlook, it keeps trying to open the file that is missing!


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  • #7
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Copy Archive.pst to the correct directory then rename it to phil.pst.
    It should work ok then.


  • #8
    dave13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭dave13


    Are you using Exchange there?Personally if it was me i'd delete my email profile and create a new one and just re add the pst . But you have to know your mail settings! What version of outlook are you using by the way?

    Edit: Actually hagar's approach is a lot simpler. I tend to go for the over-the-top approach.


  • #9
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    You should be able to use the Mail icon in Control Panel to point it to the other pst, or create a new profile with an empty one.


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