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Hello to all,
i need to recover all my outlook files - emails, folders, etc.
i erase all from my mac and then i reinstall OS ( 10.9.2 ) and Office 2011 for mac. i made the settings and it is working perfectly.
before this i saved a copy of Main Identity . now i am trying to put back all my files but i don't know how.
your help is really appreciated.
Liviu Opris.
Hello to all,
i need to recover all my outlook files - emails, folders, etc.
i erase all from my mac and then i reinstall OS ( 10.9.2 ) and Office 2011 for mac. i made the settings and it is working perfectly.
before this i saved a copy of Main Identity . now i am trying to put back all my files but i don't know how.
your help is really appreciated.
Liviu Opris.
I have Office for Mac 2011. I have been using Office for at least 20 years.
I am semi retired but occasionally assist my son in law with his work.
This result in a a large amount of correspondence which is relevant for a while. My Microsoft Identity gets quite large.
I combined a number of files into a file to archive. I selected the file and then selected export with the option to delete old files.
I came back a few hours later to find that all of my Outlook files had been deleted and the .olm contains 2.5gb of data.
Is it possible to reinstate the information to Outlook?
I ran the Microsoft Database utility yesterday. There has not been much work carried out since the utility run.
Am I able to select to last file and start with it?
I cleaned up my computer and accidentally moved my "Outlook Files" folder. My email stopped working and I received the message: Task '*** Email address is removed for privacy *** – Sending' reported error (0x8004010F): 'Outlook data file cannot be accessed' (and a similar one for receiving).
After a great deal of fussing with the program I finally realized what had happened and moved the folder back where it belongs. Meanwhile I had created a new profile, but have now set it back to the original profile. It still doesn't work (ie, won't send or receive emails; I still get the same error message).
I have another data file directly in my Documents folder which the program also accesses. That stuff is showing up okay. I would really like the program to just work off that one data file, but haven't been able to figure out how to make it do that.
If I go into my "Outlook" profile (the original one), it lists three data files: two of them are identical, the one in my Documents folder. The other one is My Outlook Data File(1).pst in the Outlook Files folder. I set one of the ones in the Documents folder to the default (the other one won't allow me to do so) and it still acts the same.
The problem is that I really don't have a clue what I am doing. We have profiles, data files, defaults, accounts and all this stuff that I don’t know how it all fits together. Does it all have to be so confusing? Can someone explain in simple terms how this works so that it can make sense to my simple mind?
I have a problem restoring my Outlook files after a time machine backup. My Main Identity can't be rebuild due to an unknown Outlook error. I have looked up numerous articles about this problem and it seems to be common on Mac OS X.
What I want to achieve is, that all my Emails, Account settings, calendar settings and contacts are as they were before the time machine backup. I have switched to MAC about a year ago and therefore have an old .pst file, which I migrated back then. (It didn't move all emails without notifying me, but I managed to move these manually as I still have the old Microsoft laptop)
Several MAC experts back then assured me that Outlook can be fully restored from the time machine as all other data and files on my mac. So far that seems to be true apart from my Outlook files. I have exported all settings and my Outlook content to an .olm file. But I only did that once, about 11 months ago. (Because the MAC gurus all explained that this manual backup is not necessary anymore with the time machine backup running all the time) So that doesn't help either as I am missing the mails & data from 11 months.
What happened so far:
After the time machine backup Outlook tried to rebuild my Main Identity but always fails to do so in Step 4 of 5 (recovering data). "Your database could not be rebuild" is the message I get from the MS Database Utility all the time.
I looked the problem up on several IT forums and support sides and...
...that's what I have done so far:
1. create a new identity: Worked fine, but Outlook is then completely empty. All mails, calendar entries, etc. are gone
2. I copied the identity files (about 4.7 GB) incl. the folder structure into the new identity, but this steps leads me back to step 1, as Outlook prompts to rebuild the database again and fails with the same error messages.
Tried this several times with recovered database folder and files from different dated backups.
My idea now is, to uninstall Outlook completely, re-install it and copy the files into the Main Identity again, as there should be no reference to older versions, which seems to be the problem. I haven't done that yet. I am not an expert and therefore hope to find a workable solution here on this platform.
Operating System: Mac OS X, 10.6.8
Office version 2011 for Mac: 14.2.2
Thanks in advance
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