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by tech

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I attempted to archive my old email messages because there were over 10,000 messages in my personal folders and my Outlook was running very poorly. During the archival process, about 90% of these messages disappeared and I have had no luck recovering them.

I have a backup up copy of my .pst file on a flash drive and I was wondering what the best way might be to recover my inboxes and sent items using this backup copy.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
James

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by thumbsup2

First, did you open the archive.pst file to see if your messages were in there? When you archive, it creates a file called archive.pst, usually stored in the same location as the outlook.pst file.

If they're not in archive.pst, you can use the import feature to import your lost messages from the backup outlook.pst file on the flash drive. Just be sure to tell it NOT to import duplicates, or you'll really have a mess.

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