Re: Detect and Repair has lost my .pst file!!! by Brian
Brian
Thu May 08 07:17:21 PDT 2008
Andy <Andy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I needed to do a detect and repair in Excel which seems to also have
> reconfigured things in Outlook. I tried to relink my .pst file but
> it's not there (or else has been emptied).
>
> Searched across the PC *.pst with no avail. Where's it gone and why!!!
You probably got a new mail profile. In Control Panel's Mail applet, click
Show Profiles and see if there's more than one. If so, configure it to open
the other one and see what happens.
One's PST(s) are created by default in a usually-hidden folder under the
user's Windows profile. That could be why you haven't found your PST. FOr
Windows XP, look in %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook and on Vista, look in
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Outlook.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]