My question is why on earth would you bother doing an offline defrag on an 11 MB pub.edb?
Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Willem Jackson Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:56 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Need Help Restoring a Deleted pub.edb in 5.5 Boy, do I feel stupid! Please don't pile on -- I'm suffering enough SHAME and GUILT already... Here's my sad story: On the Friday after Thanksgiving (office closed, I thought I would show a little initiative and finally do that ESEUTIL work I had been putting off for 18 months. I had shut down Exchange and copied my on my 8gb priv.edb and 11mb pub.edb to a backup hard drive. Because the ESEUTIL process aborted halfway through the process on priv.edb, I decided to instead just put things back the way they were and go home to discuss the day's tragic events with my good friend JACK DANIELS. :) (Maybe I will revisit ESEUTIL over the Christmas holidays, but that's another story.) Anyway, when I came back to work on Monday, I started getting reports that the Public Folders were gone. For reasons still unknown to me, I must have either MOVED or DELETED pub.edb from its original location. Exchange had evidently rebuilt a pub.edb file, but it was just 2 mb with no visbile data and only a couple of default folders. (The original entries for the Public Folders were still showing up in Exchange Administrator for what it's worth.) I found the copy of 11 mb pub.edb that I had made on Friday. What is the best/easiest procedure for a moron like myself to get the file back into Exchange? _________________________________________________________________ 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]
