From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

This is another handy tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b8a
f-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en -
it's an add-on to Outlook that will prompt the user ever X days
(configurabe via a gui) to backup the pst file, and all the user has to do
is click yes or no. It just copies the pst file to a specified location,
nothing fancier than that, but in your case you might have gotten away with
just a few days worth of messages to recover from the damaged file.

Oh, and it's free :-)


Antti Kurenniemi

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> I've found a couple of programs that proclaim their ability to either
> repair and/or extract the data from PST files, including those that are
> over the 2 gig file limit (one says files up to 4 gig in size).  One says
> you can either selectively extract specific "folders", or extract the
> entire file, and it creates a folder structure with that mirrors that of
> the source PST, and puts all the items as individual files within each
> folder.  Then it says that you can use the same program to re-populate a
> new PST file.
>
> One is $125.00, and is shareware, unlicensed version will do up to 5 items
> per folder (not too useful other than as a proof of concept), and the
> other is $249.00.
>
> Me thinks one of those might be a good tool to have around anyway.
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.

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