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Really Wierd - Needed Help Please

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aullah

aullah

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Oct 8, 2008
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Hi,
My name is Asim and this is my first post or question here.

One user called me today and he said that he lost his emails from March 2008 to Oct 5/2008.

I checked and yess,, all his emails are gone from March 3 2008 till Oct5 2008.

Weird enough, he has few PST(Outlook data file).

All of them has emails before march3/08 and after Oct 5 2008. ALSO. in sent items all the emails are gone from that period as well in all PSTs.

He has pop 3 account. SO. R u guys scratching your head, i know i am, please help.

 
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Is there any chance this person has been using more than one computer? If the pop3 was downloaded onto another computer, then it will have the missing time period there.....
 
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Nope, its the only PC he used,

and it was there till thursday , Friday its gone.
 
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I knoww.. If the problem is with 1 PST and is missing data I can understand, it happend to all 4 PST file that were in his outlook.

PST is like a Document You typed u saved. IT Should stay there. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:.


 
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Could they have been saved to a network drive?
Try a search for *.pst on the local pc and maybe if theres a share on the network he has access to search there also.
 
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All the PSTs are there,, emails from MArch till October are missing from the PSTs. 2 on network and 2 local PST.
 
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Networked PSTs aren't supported (and Microsoft strongly recommends against them), and corrupted/missing data in them isn't a surprise.

As for the rest, can't say.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
 
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No, He didnt,
as i mentioned the mails during that peirod is not only gone from 1 PST or inbox.. He had few PST and its gone from all PSTs. Also from sent items its gone aswell..
Relaly wierd,, Searched the whole net ,, coudnt find anything :(
 
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