Re: Please help me recover this Exchange 5.5 data!

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From: Al Mulnick (amulnick_No_SPAM_at_ncDOTrr.com)
Date: 06/12/04


Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:54:12 -0400

Anything in the logs?

"Who knows?" <qube99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95046B33DC11Equbepunkasscom@68.6.19.6...
> Not that I can see on either front. I have opened up the mailbox on
several
> machines and get the same result. NOTHING! :)
>
> The data has to be somewhere. I can't imagine it just disappeared.
>
> > Is it possible they have a data view preventing them from seeing the
> > data? Anything in the logs after backup?
> >
> >> I don't know what or how it happened, but I have a user who has
> >> seemingly lost all their private store information. When I open up
> >> Exchange 5.5 Admin, it shows that there is 33,000+ items, but only
> >> taking up 40k of space. I don't quite see how that is possible....so
> >> I am assuming the data is there *somewhere*
> >>
> >> Before you tell me to restore from backup, this is a client of mine
> >> that did not do backups, and they have now started to (imagine that).
> >>
> >> Is this data lost forever? Or is it in a non-committed log or
> >> something like that?
> >>
> >> Where could Exchange possibly keep this data?



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