Need to Extract Data from Corrupt Recurring Appointment

Hello,

I need to extract the data from a corrupt recurring appointment. In
Outlook, all that displays is the master appointment; none of the
appointment instances are available. (Outlook 2000 and 2002 on 2
separate PC's, 2000 and XP, just using pst files, not Exchange.)

I know the appointment is corrupt, because when you export to a csv
Outlook crashes (performed on those two separate PC's.) If you delete
that appointment, the export does not cause Outlook to crash.

I have opened a copy of the pst file with a hex editor and verified
that the data exists by looking at the text strings in the file. I
might be able to extract this information (the Notes field) but the end
user really wants the accompanying date for the entry. (He was using
this to enter his daily work log.) (The date information doesn't appear
to be stored as a text string.)

I've tried running scanpst, but it doesn't correct the problem.

In all of my searches regarding corrupt recurring appointments, the
solution is almost always to simply delete the corrupt appointment,
which is the opposite of what I need to do. (Oh, and frmcache.dat does
not exist on my system, so that workaround is not an option either.)

Does anyone know of any method to directly access the data in the
pst file? Can anyone recommend a data recovery service provider that
could help me? Would a software developer be able to write a query
application to extract the information, or would that be impossible
since the appointment is corrupt?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Shawn Larson

Shawn:

You might give http://www.officerecovery.com/?wow a try. I haven't actually
used their product, but they say their tool will let you recover stuff from
corrupted PSTs.

Good luck!

TBGG
TrueBlueGeekGirl

"Shawn Larson" wrote:

Hello,

I need to extract the data from a corrupt recurring appointment. In
Outlook, all that displays is the master appointment; none of the
appointment instances are available. (Outlook 2000 and 2002 on 2
separate PC's, 2000 and XP, just using pst files, not Exchange.)

I know the appointment is corrupt, because when you export to a csv
Outlook crashes (performed on those two separate PC's.) If you delete
that appointment, the export does not cause Outlook to crash.

I have opened a copy of the pst file with a hex editor and verified
that the data exists by looking at the text strings in the file. I
might be able to extract this information (the Notes field) but the end
user really wants the accompanying date for the entry. (He was using
this to enter his daily work log.) (The date information doesn't appear
to be stored as a text string.)

I've tried running scanpst, but it doesn't correct the problem.

In all of my searches regarding corrupt recurring appointments, the
solution is almost always to simply delete the corrupt appointment,
which is the opposite of what I need to do. (Oh, and frmcache.dat does
not exist on my system, so that workaround is not an option either.)

Does anyone know of any method to directly access the data in the
pst file? Can anyone recommend a data recovery service provider that
could help me? Would a software developer be able to write a query
application to extract the information, or would that be impossible
since the appointment is corrupt?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Shawn Larson

TBGG,

Thank you for the suggestion. Outlook Recovery was not able to repair
the recurring appointment. I even sent the file to a data recovery
company for evaluation and they never got back to me. I guess they
couldn't fix it either.

Thanks,

Shawn

tbgg wrote:
Shawn:

You might give http://www.officerecovery.com/?wow a try. I haven't actually
used their product, but they say their tool will let you recover stuff from
corrupted PSTs.

Good luck!

TBGG
TrueBlueGeekGirl

"Shawn Larson" wrote:


Hello,

I need to extract the data from a corrupt recurring appointment. In
Outlook, all that displays is the master appointment; none of the
appointment instances are available. (Outlook 2000 and 2002 on 2
separate PC's, 2000 and XP, just using pst files, not Exchange.)

I know the appointment is corrupt, because when you export to a csv
Outlook crashes (performed on those two separate PC's.) If you delete
that appointment, the export does not cause Outlook to crash.

I have opened a copy of the pst file with a hex editor and verified
that the data exists by looking at the text strings in the file. I
might be able to extract this information (the Notes field) but the end
user really wants the accompanying date for the entry. (He was using
this to enter his daily work log.) (The date information doesn't appear
to be stored as a text string.)

I've tried running scanpst, but it doesn't correct the problem.

In all of my searches regarding corrupt recurring appointments, the
solution is almost always to simply delete the corrupt appointment,
which is the opposite of what I need to do. (Oh, and frmcache.dat does
not exist on my system, so that workaround is not an option either.)

Does anyone know of any method to directly access the data in the
pst file? Can anyone recommend a data recovery service provider that
could help me? Would a software developer be able to write a query
application to extract the information, or would that be impossible
since the appointment is corrupt?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Shawn Larson