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Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I could not recover my information and decided to start outlook from scratch.
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After endless searching I am starting to panic. After my I had to shutdown by pushing the off button I opened up Outlook this evening and received the following message:<br />
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&quot;Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The file C:\Documents and Settings\[USER NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Out<wbr />look.pst is not a personal folders file.&quot; <br />
The [USER NAME] would be my login name of course.<br />
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So I went to that directory and the outlook.pst file is 0kb!! I then did a search on my pc using Windows XP Search for *.pst and the only file I find is the outlook.pst but with 0kb on it. <br />
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What happend? Where are my emails? My life was in Outlook and I feel like my business will go down the tubes without an Outlook recovery. I've been hearing about the 2 gig rule but I don't think my file was really that big.
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After endless searching I am starting to panic. After my I had to shutdown by pushing the off button I opened up Outlook this evening and received the following message:

"Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The file C:\Documents and Settings\[USER NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file." 
The [USER NAME] would be my login name of course.

So I went to that directory and the outlook.pst file is 0kb!! I then did a search on my pc using Windows XP Search for *.pst and the only file I find is the outlook.pst but with 0kb on it. 

What happend? Where are my emails? My life was in Outlook and I feel like my business will go down the tubes without an Outlook recovery. I've been hearing about the 2 gig rule but I don't think my file was really that big.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I could not recover my information and decided to start outlook from scratch.

unable to open outlook

After endless searching I am starting to panic. After my I had to shutdown by pushing the off button I opened up Outlook this evening and received the following message:

&amp;quot;Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The file C:\Documents and Settings\[USER NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file.&amp;quot; 
The [USER NAME] would be my login name of course.

So I went to that directory and the outlook.pst file is 0kb!! I then did a search on my pc using Windows XP Search for *.pst and the only file I find is the outlook.pst but with 0kb on it. 

What happend? Where are my emails? My life was in Outlook and I feel like my business will go down the tubes without an Outlook recovery. I&amp;#39;ve been hearing about the 2 gig rule but I don&amp;#39;t think my file was really that big.

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.