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Old 12-21-2021, 12:48 PM
samuelthomson samuelthomson is offline Empty PST file Windows 10 Empty PST file Office 2016
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Hello,



I usually use bt.com webmail and I wanted to create a backup of my email folders, so I linked Outlook to that account using IMAP with the intention of creating an archive from Outlook.

I then created a PST file via Outlook, and then deleted all my email folders in Outlook with the intention of restoring them from my PST backup (I didn't realise that deleting these folders would propagate back to my BT webmail, so I thought I was doubly safe with the PST file and the BT webmail version).

As it turns out, my IMAP settings meant that the folders on my BT webmail also disappeared after a short delay and I didn't notice this change initially.

I thought I was still safe with the .PST file, but after trying to restore it, a large number of folders are just empty. The folders themselves are there as expected, but a large number of them don't contain any emails. I've tried "importing" the PST file and separately "opening" the data file in Outlook, and I've also scanned it with the free version of Stellar Repair, and the same folders appear to be empty in both instances.

I'm assuming that this is just hard luck, and the PST export process just didn't save all the folders correctly. I still have all my "sent" mail, and several random folders have survived as expected, but the majority haven't. Is there anything else I could try to get my lost email back before giving up on them, including other recovery software?
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