There was nothing out of the ordinary in the "Outlook Today" view. Advanced find did not find any items out of place.
Thanks, Will -----Original Message----- From: exslist - itek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Recover Deleted Items If you do an advanced find on the Mailbox can you see the items? I once had a user drag and drop some email items on the Outlook Today folder. Items there have a location of Top of Information Store -Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "William E. Grever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:10 PM Subject: RE: Recover Deleted Items > The views are standard defaults. Even when changing views I can not see the > supposedly restored items. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:57 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Recover Deleted Items > > Have you verified that there isn't some sort of view or filter blocking your > seeing them? > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William E. Grever > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:55 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Recover Deleted Items > > No. I have never used it on this sever. > > Will > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:48 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Recover Deleted Items > > Are you running Mailbox Manager? > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William E. Grever > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:44 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Recover Deleted Items > > Greetings all, > A user comes to me saying that nearly all of his contacts are > missing. I log onto his account from my workstation, and sure enough, his > contacts folder has about 10 contacts when it should contain about 200. > This user's main computer is a notebook, so I export the contacts from the > offline folder and import them to the contacts folder when the account is > online with the Exchange 5.5 server. The user claims not to have deleted > the contacts, and seeing as he is fairly computer literate, I believe him. > (Ok, get your flame throwers ready) The user's notebook is a Mac, and the > primary client is Outlook 2002 for the Mac which as you may know, is less > than stable. So I attribute the random deletion of contacts to some sort of > crash of his Mac Outlook 2002. But I am curious as to where the contacts > are, because they are not in his "Deleted Items" folder. So from my PC, I > log back onto his account and look at the tombstoned items accessed by the > "Recover Deleted Items" tool. I see what I presume to be his contacts, all > with the same "deleted on" on date of 9:36 am this morning. I also see what > I presume to be email from the past few days and calendar items all with the > same "delete on" time stamp, 9:36 am this morning. I walk over and verify > with the user that they have not purposefully deleted email and calendar > events this morning. I ask them to log off Outlook so I can restore items > that were deleted at 9:36 am this morning. I go back to my office select > all the items I want to restore, and click the "recover selected items" > button. > Here is where things get really odd. The items are no where to be found. > Not in his deleted items folder, not in the original folders, not in any > other account for which I have the profile configured on my PC, and they are > no longer listed with the tombstoned items in his account. I did not > restore the offline folder sync. logs that had a deleted on time stamp of > 9:36am, and now those sync. logs have a different "Deleted On" time stamp: > 11:28am > > > Does anyone have an idea as to where I might find the items I attempted to > recover? Is there a pleasant way to delve into the priv.ebd file and > retrieve them? I am mainly interested in the email; calendar and contact > information can be retrieved from the offline folders. > > Thank you for any useful suggestions. > (And you are welcome for setting up an easy Macintosh target for all you > giddy flame throwers.) > > > Exchange server 5.5 SP3, NT 4.0 SP 6a > > Will Grever > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
