<Antony Boggis> wrote in message news:200810816559tony@boggis.com...

>I had to do a system re-install yesterday on a Vista laptop. I preparation
>for this I backup all my
> Office files (docs & Outlook 2007 PST file).
>
> The PST file (as of yesterday) was just under 2Gb in size and has many
> emails, contacts, etc.
>
> Now that i have re-installed everything and restored the backed-up files,
> I can successfully open
> all the Word, Excel & Powerpoint files, but when I open the PST file, it
> shows as empty. Nothing.
>
> I've tried SCANPST on it and it reports only about 26 folders and 200 or
> so "members" - I know
> there should be waaaaay more than that.

How did you perform the backup? Was Outlook open or closed when you
performed the process?
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
30 Aug 2008Large Outlook 2000 .pst file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.mg
30 Aug 2008\ Re: Large Outlook 2000 .pst file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.Russ Valentine [MVP-O...
30 Aug 2008   \ Re: Large Outlook 2000 .pst file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.mg
30 Aug 2008      |- Re: Large Outlook 2000 .pst file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.Russ Valentine [MVP-O...
30 Aug 2008      |  \ Re: Large Outlook 2000 .pst file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.mg
30 Aug 2008      |     \ Re: Large Outlook 2000 .pst file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.Russ Valentine [MVP-O...
08 Oct 2008      |        \ Large PST file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.Antony Boggis
09 Oct 2008      |           \ Re: Large PST file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.Brian Tillman [MVP - ...
30 Aug 2008      \ Re: Large Outlook 2000 .pst file shows as empty in Outlook 2007.DL
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