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I recently reformatted my hardrive and before doing so i backed up the personal folder in outlook using the EXPORT feature but did NOT do the same for the rules themselves.
I have a lot of complicated rules that were created and need to recover them.
I have a complete backup of that entire hardrive as it was before i cleared it on an external hardrive.
Does anyone know what file i may be able to use from that backup to recover the rules?
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Just for your reference:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP100967041033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052429261033.aspx
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2809/outlook_2007_backup_copy_rules/
That would have been easy, isn't it?
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup2007.asp gives Outlook 2007 file locations. There is none for rules. So that makes me think they are in the .pst file.
From your post I understand that they aren't. But I'm not sure. You didn't write that they didn't work after you restored the .pst file. You didn't even write that you tried. You didn't even write you restored. You only wrote about backup.
The nice trick to find out:
1. Shutdown.
2. Wait until midnight.
3. Boot and login
4. Open Outlook.
5. Create a rule.
6. Close Outlook.
7. Using your favorite filemanager, search for files in your profile that have a modification date of today. One of them must contain the rules. I don't hope it's the registry!
8. Restore those files from your backup.
Success not guaranteed, but it might work.
Please let us know. And in the future, be sure to include those rules in your regular backup!
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