If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Urgent: Outlook '07 Data Gone.
I am preparing to upgrade to W7 from Vista HP and in doing so have been
backing up everything to an external HD. I copied and pasted Office info to the HD and do anything else like delete or cut it. Outlook opens but contains no data. I get a Personal Folders window saying: The file C:\users\My Name\My Name\documents\office backup.post cannot be found. In Documents, I have Outlook icons of Outlook, backup, archive that when opened say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel". What have I done and more importantly, how do I get my data back? Btw...I followed the instructions here for backing up Outlook to get to this point. Thanks!!!! |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Urgent: Outlook '07 Data Gone.
To see your connected data files use;
Control Panel- Mail- button Data Files... Here you can also add/remove pst-files to Outlook. It's hard to be any more specific without telling us exactly what you did or which instructions "here" you followed. A full backup and restore guide can be found at; http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Saidas" wrote in message ... I am preparing to upgrade to W7 from Vista HP and in doing so have been backing up everything to an external HD. I copied and pasted Office info to the HD and do anything else like delete or cut it. Outlook opens but contains no data. I get a Personal Folders window saying: The file C:\users\My Name\My Name\documents\office backup.post cannot be found. In Documents, I have Outlook icons of Outlook, backup, archive that when opened say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel". What have I done and more importantly, how do I get my data back? Btw...I followed the instructions here for backing up Outlook to get to this point. Thanks!!!! |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Urgent: Outlook '07 Data Gone.
"Saidas" wrote in message
... I am preparing to upgrade to W7 from Vista HP and in doing so have been backing up everything to an external HD. I copied and pasted Office info to the HD and do anything else like delete or cut it. Outlook opens but contains no data. I get a Personal Folders window saying: The file C:\users\My Name\My Name\documents\office backup.post cannot be found. This is not the typical location for any PST. Sounds like you did change something. In Documents, I have Outlook icons of Outlook, backup, archive that when opened say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel". You don't open Outlook data files by double-clicking them in Windows Explorer. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|