Steve McKenzie wrote:
> Thanks Sajit
>
> I think the file is dead. Thanks for those who offered help. I have
> split my emails (the ones that werent lost) into three pst files, and
> will in future make a new pst file for each year. Thunderbird was
> recommended as an alternative to Outlook; I still have to evaluate this
> in detail. For backup I will use file synch as it looks easier to do a
> comparison than MS backup. In adition I have purchased a 250GB external
> hard drive. If that doesn’t do it I'm quitting my job and starting a new
> profession as a road sweeper.
If it was Outlook that caused the problem in the first place, I'd stay away from Outlook. The switchover to Thunderbird is quite painless. As you mentioned in another message, you can have a RAID1 setup with an external hard drive, burn DVDs AND upload to a remote webserver as data backup, but the corrupted file will just be corrupted in more than one location.
Too bad you can't just convert your PST files to one big txt file.
Paul Received on Fri Mar 31 19:10:00 2006
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