Last Updated on February 21, 2023
A user just called me saying that some of his folders in Outlook had ‘disappeared’. I gently asked if he may have accidentally dragged and dropped them off somewhere and he assured me he had searched each of his folders and couldn’t find them.
My first instinct was to restore the folders from the backup that ran automatically the night before, unfortunately this is when I found out there was a problem with backups and this route to a solution wasn’t possible!
A search on both Outlook and Google Desktop showed that the messages still existed somewhere but in a location, we just couldn’t find.
How to restore missing folders in Outlook 2003
I closed outlook and went into task manager to esure the process had also stopped. I then launched Outlook by going to the start button, then choosing run and entering Outlook /resetfolders When Outlook opened up the missing folders had returned.
‘Outlook /resetfolders’ is what’s known as an Outlook Switch, there is a list of the other switches here
This user uses POP3 mail stored in a PST, that PST is stored on a network location.
Once I worked with folders into MS Outlook and something happened.After that all my mails were deleted.I was frightened to death.But fortunately myself helped-corrupted pst file outlook 2007.This tool I found in twitter.Tool is free as far as I know.Moreover utility can help to extract data from corrupted files in *.ost and *.pst format and avoid losing of critical contacts, calendars and messages.
There are several such tools about, personally I just gave up Outlook and started using Gmail instead!
I know a lot of tools,which works with other types of files. But yesterday I was the Internet and observed there an interesting utility – exchange ost to pst converter. I tried to use it and the program surprised me. It restored my old crashed emails for a minute and without payment as far as I remembered.
Andrew, you're great, thanks! Just used this tool & it WORKED …hooray! Thanks.
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