<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]