I found the recovered items! (This was followed by a dramatic reduction in my pucker factor.) When following Ed's suggestion to check the views on the folders, I checked the inbox, contacts, and calendar folders. I foolishly overlooked the Deleted items folder, which had a view limiting the items that were seen.
Now the question still remains: What could have caused many items (but not all items) from at least 3 different folders to be tombstoned and bypass the Deleted Items folder? Was it an oddball crash in Outlook 2002 for the Mac? Or does this warrant further investigation? Thanks Ed for your help. Will -----Original Message----- From: William E. Grever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:47 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Recover Deleted Items 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
