Restore it from your last backup. Many of us use this procedure.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=287070
Remeber that we only lose what we didn't backup. There is no fix for those that won't backup except to watch them have repeated losses and reminding them about backup.
"Hard disks are temporary storage."
Bob
I don't know how, but it did. I'm running an office xp suite on a windows xp home edition system. Everything is updated regularly. Just yesterday when I was openning Outlook 2002, it gave me an error: "personal folder at C:...etc. is not found", and then it asked me to locate the .pst folder or create a new one? My system is a standalone comupter, that is not connected to anynetwork, and all my .pst files are located on my harddrive. I already have done a lot of search about .pst folder problems running on windows xp, but most of them do not apply:
1. my .pst file was not hidden, so the common problem of windows xp treating .pst file as a system file does not apply here.
2. I did not keep my .pst file on an exchange server.
3. My .pst file never reached the 2GB troublesome size, where it gets truncated or trimmed by windows
It just disappeared, I tried search or find, and it seems the file is not there.
Can anyone, please, tell me if there's a way around this problem?

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