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Thanks to both of you for these suggestions. &nbsp;They give me a glimmer of hope! &nbsp;I'm at work now so will try them when I get home tonight and split the points between you two experts.
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Thanks to both of you for these suggestions.  They give me a glimmer of hope!  I'm at work now so will try them when I get home tonight and split the points between you two experts.

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Sorry for my delay in closing this question. &nbsp;I gave up in the end, as the 7 days had passed since I overwrote the PST file. &nbsp;I've learned so much over this painful experience! &nbsp;NEVER do stuff late at night!
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Sorry for my delay in closing this question.  I gave up in the end, as the 7 days had passed since I overwrote the PST file.  I've learned so much over this painful experience!  NEVER do stuff late at night!

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After having major issues with my laptop, I updated to Windows 8.1 and then very stupidly re-installed Microsoft Outlook 2007 without taking a backup of anything. &nbsp; &nbsp;Is there a way of recovering old emails/contacts from Yahoo??
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After having major issues with my laptop, I updated to Windows 8.1 and then very stupidly re-installed Microsoft Outlook 2007 without taking a backup of anything.    Is there a way of recovering old emails/contacts from Yahoo??

Recovering Outlook data

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions is sometimes also considered an email client, but more commonly referred to as webmail.