Re: Recover notes from within a cancelled meeting

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All I have to say is you definitely earned my "You da man!" award for the
week!

Thanks very, very much! I'm going to try to mount the .iso file and attempt
to recover the lost info via the outlook.pst. I definitely learned a lot and
the info on being able to mount the .iso and isolating just that file is
great news for another time when I may need to just restore a file or folder
versus the entire image.

And I understand about the name of the "outlook.pst" not being special, but
I wanted to make sure that was the one that the instructions in the link you
provide (a good resource) meant by "personal folder file".

Also, I downloaded and installed the MS addin for backing up the .pst's as
suggested on that site and am glad I'll have a regular way to keep up with
them automatically. Again, thanks!



"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"jel" <jel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7AD7842B-5385-49DE-8955-D61506ACD0ED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Okay, I think I understand, but after going to the page your referenced, by
"data store" do you mean the "Outlook.pst" file and I assume that it
includes
everything that's in your Outlook (including the calendar)?

Correct.

As I mentioned in the first post, the only copy of anything Outlook that I
have BEFORE the meeting was cancelled is an image (.iso file) of my entire
system. So, if restored I assume I'd also have the old .pst; however, I am
figuring that restoring my image on another computer to retrieve this file
isn't worth the effort, but at least now I know I need to backup the .pst if
ever do this again.

There are many free programs on the Internet that will allow you to mount an
ISO image as a read-only disk. Two of them are Alcohol 52% and Daemon Tools
Lite. Mount the ISO image and you'll be able to copy individual files (like
the older PST) to your hard drive without having to restore the entire disk
image.

Also, just to make doublely sure I know which .pst to backup, I assume it 's
the "Outlook.pst", since you said that the "archive.pst" doesn't have the
calendar info. (I actually do have a backup on my work server of the
archive.pst, but alas, not the Outllook.pst.)

Archive.pst may have your event, but it's unlikely. Outlook.pst is probably
the one you want. There's nothing magical about the name "outlook.pst",
however. You can name PSTs anything you want; that's just the default name
for some versions of Outlook.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


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