Re: Problem after mailbox restore in Exchange 5.5

From: EG (EG_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:13:02 -0800

Tried to use the exmerge tool to retreive the messages from the specific
mailbox, no fun... it only extracts the messages after the restore. Why is
the Mailbox Resource information not right. Heck I have to have the mail
back before wednesday.... and I'm almost out of options

"Rich Matheisen [MVP]" wrote:

> "EG" <EG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >The problem is I don't see any of the mesages in the mailbox, only the new
> >ones coming in. I tried restoring to an alternate recipient (same problem),
> >did a consistency check, also no solution. I'm stuck here... Guess I'll have
> >to build an alternate restore server (there goes my free time...)
>
> Sounds like the restore didn't go very well. Are you sure there's
> nothing that's keeping you from seeing those messages, like a "view"
> that's set to show only unread messages?
>
> The fact that the information store says the messages are there kinda
> puts the problem on eihter permissions or views.
>
> --
> Rich Matheisen
> MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
>

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