also known as Wednesday - and it's only getting worse. If that can even possibly happen. I feel like Alexander from the old Judith Viorst book (thank you, Judith for the blog post title!) - did you ever read it when you were a kid? Thinking about that book is about the only thing that has kept me from bursting into tears today - and over a computer! Honestly, I could just puke. Something somehow ate my Outlook pst file - and now all of my calendar, contacts, tasks and emails are gone. I have struggled mightily to even find the hidden file where all of the data is stored! Once I did manage to find the thing - thanks to help from a client's computer nerd buddy - I am unable to repair it because my MS Office installation is lacking the file needed and I don't have the disk - Tim does. And while I am sure he doesn't have the disk with him, he is also not patient at all with me when providing computer assistance. He acts like I am the village idiot even though I actually possess an above-average IQ - and well, I admit that he pisses me off a little when he does that. Consequently, computer support sessions in which both of us participate do not go well. At all. I am at the point where I realize that I am going to have to break down and pay for a utility program that specifically scans and repairs my pst file - which, come to find out, is a problem when your file grows to over 2 gigbytes in size, which mine apparently has. I haven't thrown anything and my computer has not moved from its spot on my desk, so I am at least trying to remain calm.
Trying. Really trying.
OH, NO!!! Hope you find a way to get it fixed. I wonder if you talk to Microsoft and explain things if they have a work-around.
ReplyDeleteI use Outlook for the house calendar, and faithfully back it up to a pst file. I've only had to use it once and it worked. However, I heard a horror story similar to yours from a friend who works in her hubby's orthodontic office--they kept the patient appointments on the calendar and lost it all.