ZIPPED.Z01 files

[Lynn]

I recently had to restore my computer and saved all my outlook messages and
addresses to cd.

My inbox messages were giving me a cyclic redundancy, then all of a sudden I
found that there were 51 files named as above in my mail file where I was
trying to restore the inbox. What are these Zipped.Z01 to Z51 files and how
do I restore them to my outlook inbox?

 

[George Hester]

I believe you have a 3rd party application there. What is your operating
system and when you say "mail file" what is the extension of this file?
..pst?

 

[Lynn]

The file appears on the CD as OLbackup.pst. I moved it to my desktop and now
the there are 51 of these .Z** files.

When I exported my inbox, I selected the second option which was encrypted
compression without password protection. Help. I need my messages.

 

[George Hester]

Lynn I am not sure about "exporting" the Inbox. All your message files you
see or saw in Outlook are in a file with pst as its extension. I name mine
ghester.pst and since I have other profiles in Outlook I name those
%PROFILE%.pst also. Yours might just be using the default which is
default.pst I believe. So if you have that pst on a CD-ROM you need to copy
it to your harddrive and remove the Read-Only attribute that occurs when
copying it off the CD-ROM. Then you set up a profile in Outlook and point
to that pst as the one you want to use. If it was password protected the
"point to" will ask for that password before it can be used.

It may be that you will not have the original pst in which case the
OLbackup.pst will have to take the place in above. Everything should be in
there. As far as I know you cannot export just the Inbox in Outlook other
than to Outlook Express. But in that case it will not be a pst but will
appear in the Inbox in Outlook Express.

 

[Lynn]

Thank you for responding. I followed MS's instructions, one of the Compass
team who was directing the restore of my computer. The inbox was too large,
so I selected the second option which I believe is encrypted compression.

I believe these are encrypted compression files. But no where in any MS
resource do I find this explained. when you choose encrypted compression the
file still says .pst, however when you copy it to the hard drive it is now 51
files (one for each subfolder in Inbox).

Of course, part of the mail that I lost was the name and contact information
for the Compass person who was helping me. Perhaps she would know.

What if anything do you have to do to unencrypt/uncompress .pst files?

 

[George Hester]

OK I might be able to help on this but I need the EXACT name of these Z**
files. Just one will do. I wish someone else would join in but this "second
option ... is encrypted compression" is NOT something native to Outlook like
I said before. And so since we do not know what the application you are
using that is responsible for this is, we are walking blind.

 

[Lynn]

Thank you. Here's what I did. I downloaded a program called CDrestore. It
ran for two days fixing the cyclic redundancy error. This morning it
finished. I opened Outlook and it was able to restore my messages from the
..pst file on the repaired disk. I will deleted all the Zipped.Z01 to
Zipped.Z51 files as they no longer matter.

Thank you for your help. It would be nice to know what the Zipped files
were and if they related to the Outlook encrypted compression mode. But it
isn't that important as I have my mail back now.