cobcdb_ax

Help.
Is there any way to recover PPC2002 or Outlook 2002 data
once it has been overwritten with Activesync?

It was my fault!!
Yes, whip me with a wet noodle! But I still need help.
My Dell Axim had a memory error which forced a hard-
reboot.
Fortunately, I had backed up my data. Unfortunately, the
last backup was September (and here it is December)!

I restored the data with the 9/03 backup.

No problem, I thought, since I use activesync with
Outlook with my home computer and office computer, surely
I still have the data.

I plug in my Axim PPC2002 with the home computer ... but
it simply overwrites all my Outlook data with the OLD
9/03 backup data!

Ouch.
Now I have not only lost my Axim PPC calendar, but also
my data on the home machine.

No problem, I think to myself. I'll just sync with the
office machine since that, I know, is up to date.

Like a fool, I connect my Axim to the office machine
which AUTOMATICALLY syncs.

Before I get a chance to stop it, all the office data is
changed to the old 9/03 data.

I know (now) I whould have backed up the outlook pst file.
And I whip myself for not having backup up the AXIM files
on a more regular basis.

Is it all gone?

Howard2k

Wow, yeah probably gone. If it's corporate, can you get them to restore it from the server?

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cobcdb_ax

Yeah.
I kinda' figured I was toast.
Not corporate .. small business.
Stupidity is expensive!

MrKlaatu

Does your Outlook automatically Archive?

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cobcdb_ax

It does now.
It didn't then.

But good news, I just found that many of the contacts and calendar items which were lost were dumped into my deleted folder on one of the desktop outlooks.
I can move many of them directly to the calendar and contacts folders. Others I can reconstruct from my notes.

But interestingly, the activesync does not work as quickly as it used to.

Perhaps I upgraded activesync since 9/03.
If so, perhaps I need to re-install activesync 3.7
and I hope I can do it in a way that doesn't trash my existing partnerships.