How to recover Outlook Notes without Outlook

September 14, 2007 2:12 PM

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.

posted by Ironmouth to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

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.
posted by phrayzee at 3:40 PM on September 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

Honestly, its probably easier to do a factory reset of the wireless device and be done with it.
posted by damn dirty ape at 4:01 PM on September 14, 2007

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

What he said.
posted by voltairemodern at 11:22 PM on September 14, 2007