Solved Desperately Need Help - Outlook - Lost all Outlook mail settings and emails

OMG it worked beautifully!!! That was easy, everything restored - emails, cutom folders!
Thank you all so very , very much for all your patience and incredible most awesome help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a side note, any way to do the same with my Outlook calendar? Not a real biggy if not I can just manually enter all my appointments.

Thanks again, ole Don is a very, very happy man this morning!!!!!

Glad all was not lost, just Outlook being, well, Outlook lol.

Hmmm. For a calendar, first we'd need to know what calendar app, and if the calendar is tied to an email account, which one it is.

Then, we also need to see if the webmail version of the email address has a calendar feature.

sound like your OST got corrupted somehow. you could look into some ost recovery programs, if the calendar is worth it. the appts were most likely stored locally on your outlook desktop applications.

With a new profile, could he just import the old .OST?

No, ost is the profile data file. He now has 2 ost files, but the one with the local calendar data is corrupted (I’m 90% sure that’s what caused this). You can use a sysinternals program to try and repair it. And they also have an ost to pst converter program.

Makes sense.

dburne said:

OMG it worked beautifully!!! That was easy, everything restored - emails, cutom folders!
Thank you all so very , very much for all your patience and incredible most awesome help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a side note, any way to do the same with my Outlook calendar? Not a real biggy if not I can just manually enter all my appointments.

Thanks again, ole Don is a very, very happy man this morning!!!!!

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I love it when a plan comes together!

I did something similar last week, and had a heckuva time getting my emails back. Luckily (although I hate OneDrive hijacking my stuff), they were all stored on OneDrive! Don't ask how I got them all back; to this day, I don't know what I did right.

Sorry, gang. Being admitted to the hospital unexpectedly today. I will reply, but it may be later this evening or tomorrow. Thanks a lot.

dburne said:

Sorry, gang. Being admitted to the hospital unexpectedly today. I will reply, but it may be later this evening or tomorrow. Thanks a lot.

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OKMGoodness! I hope it's not too serious and you'll be OK.

dburne said:

Sorry, gang. Being admitted to the hospital unexpectedly today. I will reply, but it may be later this evening or tomorrow. Thanks a lot.

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Here’s hoping for a positive outcome, cheers

Here's hoping for a speedy outcome and recovery @dburne

dacrone said:

No, ost is the profile data file. He now has 2 ost files, but the one with the local calendar data is corrupted (I’m 90% sure that’s what caused this). You can use a sysinternals program to try and repair it. And they also have an ost to pst converter program.

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dburne said:

Seems I have a Macrium Disc Image from yesterday the 24th. If you think better for me just to try that I will certainly give it a shot just let me know. Not going to try anything until I hear from someone. I scared.

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@dacrone now that we know the email is, in fact, intact on the webmail server, I think it might be a good idea if @dburne were to go ahead and restore this Macium image so everything is exactly as he had it, rather than setting up the new profile completely making use of conversion programs and such.

Would you agree?

i wouldnt. no telling when it got corrupted or what caused the corruption. depends on how important that calendar was...

OK, sorry gang I am back. I am in poor health and had a sudden issue yesterday and I just kept going south rapidly had to get to the yard right away and then they transferred me afterwards over to the hospital here which I still am in. Looking like I will be able to go home tomorrow.

Anyway, as mentioned, everything is working, absolutely beautifully. Now that I know how to get everything back, I will try disabling one drive again because I really do not need it running.

Thanks again everyone for all the most wonderful help!!

Wynona said:

OKMGoodness! I hope it's not too serious and you'll be OK.

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Well unfortunately it is. That is ok though I am well prepared for what I know is coming soon.
Thank goodness for spell and grammer check in Office LOL which is part the problem I am having today.

I removed iCloud from my startup routine, had to do it with task manager as I do not see a way to turn it off in my Windows software. However nothing is showing in my startup now so don't know what is going there, but it still shows disabled and insists on starting with every boot.

Seems I got it now, have icloud removed from my system and no longer starts up of course. Will be testing shortly.

Ok so did not lose anything by removing iCloud good to go now!!
Thanks so much everyone!!!

I may re-enable iCloud just so's it still has every thing there. Obviously in my case that would not happen.

One more question (of course).
Now here is where I run into issue due to my health - I start a thread and then as soon as I am ready to type - I will have no idea at times what I was going to say,

So going to be a minute, hang on...

Profile for my recently created new profile I named with a unique name,
Can I safely delete the orginal Profile or should I leave intact and just choose my custom profile each time ? It is stored with the name Profile. I have a suspicion I can delete it but would rather have confirmation here.

Thanks,

May as well leave it intact. Go back to control panel > mail > show profiles and set it to always launch with your new one. The drop-down will have all profiles it prompt each time to choose from.

dacrone said:

May as well leave it intact. Go back to control panel > mail > show profiles and set it to always launch with your new one. The drop-down will have all profiles it prompt each time to choose from.

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Thank you, that takes care of that for me, simple!!

One more question - any of you using the new Outlook?