Missing Sig file, Intellisense, email accounts

[malhenry]

Hi,

I had to rebuild my system win xp pro sp3 and am using Office XP (outlook
2002). I have copied over my .pst file from the original drive and can see
my mail in outlook, but my sig file does not appear at the bottom of new mail,
and intellisense does not work on the To: box for email addresses I entered
in my original outlook; and the email accounts with servers and ports are
gone.
Are these 3 items not stored in the .pst file? Where are they and what is
best way to restore such info? BTW, my original outlook directory only
contained .pst files and no other type of file.

Thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I had to rebuild my system win xp pro sp3 and am using Office XP (outlook
2002). I have copied over my .pst file from the original drive and can see
my mail in outlook, but my sig file does not appear at the bottom of new
mail,

Signatures are kept in %AppData%\Microsoft\SIgnatures, not in the PST. If you
didn't copy that folder before rebuilding, then you destroyed them.

and intellisense does not work on the To: box for email addresses I entered
in my original outlook;

What's "intellisense"? Do you mean "autocompletion" (i.e., "suggest names
while typing in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields")? That file is
%AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook\yourprofile.NK2, which, unless you copied it
before rebuilding, you destroyed it.

and the email accounts with servers and ports are gone.

This information is kept in the registry and you destroyed it when you
rebuilt.

 

[malhenry]

awesome response...thanks.

Signatures are kept in %AppData%\Microsoft\SIgnatures, not in the PST. If you
didn't copy that folder before rebuilding, then you destroyed them.


What's "intellisense"? Do you mean "autocompletion" (i.e., "suggest names
while typing in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields")? That file is
%AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook\yourprofile.NK2, which, unless you copied it
before rebuilding, you destroyed it.


This information is kept in the registry and you destroyed it when you
rebuilt.