Comments on: How to recover Outlook Notes without Outlook

Question: How to recover Outlook Notes without Outlook

Ironmouth — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:12:33 -0800

How can I recover data in Outlook Notes without having Outlook?

My computer crashed and I lost the passphrase to get onto my wireless modem. I had it saved in Outlook Notes in three places, my work computer, blackberry and home computer. I left my job a few weeks ago and now that my computer is crashed, I had to buy a new computer. I didn't get one with Outlook on it, just Windows Mail.

The recovery people got all of my data, but I don't know which file has the data in it, or how to recover it. I have several possible files. File one is titled "outlook" and is a FAV file. File two is also titled "outlook" and is a NK2 file. Finally, file three is also titled "outlook" and is a SRS file.

I don't know anything about these file types and I would love to just get that passphrase.

By: phrayzee

phrayzee — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:40:00 -0800

What you need is your Outlook PST file. By default it's located in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Unfortunately, the only way to open a PST is with Outlook itself. It looks like you can download a trial version of Office 2007 from here, but you'll need a MS login id.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:01:59 -0800

Honestly, its probably easier to do a factory reset of the wireless device and be done with it.

By: voltairemodern

voltairemodern — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:22:41 -0800

Honestly, its probably easier to do a factory reset of the wireless device and be done with it.

What he said.