The newest "Personal Folder" which Outlook 2000 created yesterday does not contain my most valuable information from last year! Neither do I have another .pst copy of that time period. I lost contact with those files, while Outlook refused to open yesterday and instead proposed to create a new "Personal Folder" instead. That was a crusial moment! The new "Personal Folder" does not contain any of the most valuable data in it! And there is no backup or else .pst file to be found. How do I manage to open my previous "Personal Folder" where I suppose it should be? When I try to open it, I get a message (and this is my own translated version from the message that in original is in Finnish language) My best try for a correct translation of those three sentences: "unable to open the database" "unable to ope the group of folders" "unable to extract the folder" I wonder, where is all that data that has been created last year? There should be some .pst file anyway? Althougt I have not remembered to create a backup while working so inttensively otherwise. ( I searched for all *.pst files and tried to import them into my Outlook 2000, but I did not find the critical files from last year among them. ) I do appreciate any help, that would alloud me to get touched with my deperately needed data! :) I am a university student and I had the most of my notes for my final dibloma work in those files.. My warmest Thank to anyone, who would be so kind to help me! Most thankfully, Yours Maria

Search the computer for all pst files. They may be hidden, so you'll need to enable the "Show hidden files and folders" option to see them. Then, check the file dates and you should be able to find the one you need. Then, in Outlook, click on File, Open, Outlook Data file, and point to the file you want, open, and there you go. Life's more painless for the brainless.

Maria did you find it? I am also suffering from a disappearing outlook.pst file - huge date loss. good luck