Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Wed May 20 14:57:49 CDT 2009
Steve, if she had auto-archive on then you may well have a backup. Also, your sysAdmin may have backed up the pst file within his backup batch routine. Worth a look Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: 20 May 2009 20:42 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Outlook PST troubles Dear Group, My wife, Janet, has been having trouble at work with a large Outlook PST file...about 500 MB in size. They don't use Microsoft Exchange on their server (they've got Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 on an HP server); they use one PC with Outlook to gather their messages. Up until a few days ago, they'd left copies of all messages on the server. They stopped doing that and the server downloaded 14,000 or so messages to Outlook...so the PST plumped up quickly. I think they did that on Thursday or Friday last week. Yesterday Outlook froze when they went to check email. Janet downloaded and paid for a PST repair tool. When it started the repair process the PC froze (WIndows XP). I came there today to try and help. We copied the PST file...during the copy process the PC froze. Janet had shut off the power about 10 times trying to deal with this. We ran the Microsoft ScanPst.exe program on the copy of the PST and it successfully scanned through and repaired what it could. We were able to open Outlook using that repaired PST and the new email came in just fine. However, no history, no sent mail. So there are still problems. We then tried to run the ScanPst.exe program on the original PST file and the computer locked up. I've just never heard of XP locking up so regularly because of a corrupt file. Any idea what's happening here? Thanks, Steve Erbach Neenah, WI _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com