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Jim Nugent
I am running Outlook 98, with the "internet only" module (vs. corporate),
and yesterday discovered that every distribution list is devoid of any
member. Normally, our .pst file is on a network share with 2 computers'
installations of OL98 pointed to it. Recently, the OS (Windows 2000) on
computer with the share became unuseable, and so I booted a copy in another
partition (that I normally use for training purposes) and temporarily copied
the pst file (in fact the whole share folder) to the "remote" computer's
local drive, opened that pst file and checked "deliver pop mail to this
folder." That way my wife could use email while I worked on the busted
Windows 2000. After the problem was resolved, I copied the (now more
current) folder with the pst file back to the first computer's network share
and changed delivery folders back to that share from the "remote" computer.
The address book still has all the contacts and lists, but the lists are
empty. Did I hose it up by copying the file back and forth? Does anyone know
where the dist. list information is stored and if I can retrieve it? I do
have some older versions of the .pst file backed up, but IF I found I could
open one of them and get to the populated lists, how could I transfer them?
I have had this happen before and If I had to guess, changing the pop3
delivery folder caused it or was somehow related.
I am reasonbably certain the Windows 2000 problem, which I fixed by
restoring a ghost image, did not affect the pst file.
Any ideas on what I should do now other than add all the contacts back into
all the lists? (I believe the contacts are still there, just not in the
lists).
Thank you in advace,
and yesterday discovered that every distribution list is devoid of any
member. Normally, our .pst file is on a network share with 2 computers'
installations of OL98 pointed to it. Recently, the OS (Windows 2000) on
computer with the share became unuseable, and so I booted a copy in another
partition (that I normally use for training purposes) and temporarily copied
the pst file (in fact the whole share folder) to the "remote" computer's
local drive, opened that pst file and checked "deliver pop mail to this
folder." That way my wife could use email while I worked on the busted
Windows 2000. After the problem was resolved, I copied the (now more
current) folder with the pst file back to the first computer's network share
and changed delivery folders back to that share from the "remote" computer.
The address book still has all the contacts and lists, but the lists are
empty. Did I hose it up by copying the file back and forth? Does anyone know
where the dist. list information is stored and if I can retrieve it? I do
have some older versions of the .pst file backed up, but IF I found I could
open one of them and get to the populated lists, how could I transfer them?
I have had this happen before and If I had to guess, changing the pop3
delivery folder caused it or was somehow related.
I am reasonbably certain the Windows 2000 problem, which I fixed by
restoring a ghost image, did not affect the pst file.
Any ideas on what I should do now other than add all the contacts back into
all the lists? (I believe the contacts are still there, just not in the
lists).
Thank you in advace,