Contact recovery?

[licht77]

Hi folks!

A friend of mine (really *g* - i keep making backups) managed "somehow" (of course he did nothing, just wanted to delete some double contacts on the sim card via sim_mgr) to purge all his contacts on his Kaiser -> and clever thing: after sync they are gone now on outlook too.

Now the question: Any ideas how to recover them?

There is NO exchange server in the back so activating the registryhack for the hidden "Recover Deleted Items" item in the "Extras" menu does not help.

There is no "damaged" *.pst file, so most of the "recovery tools for outlook" wont work as they adress only this kind of problem.

Standard file recovery tools (getdata back, rstudio etc.) wont work too, because the related pst file is not deleted - just parts of it. So the file remains on the same physical space on the harddisc and forensic tools wont help too.

Any other idea to get to the lost / deleted contacts either on the PC or PDA side?

Regards, Licht

(PS: I guess from now on he will use Spritebackup as told *g*)

 

[skenobi]

Hi folks!

A friend of mine (really *g* - i keep making backups) managed "somehow" (of course he did nothing, just wanted to delete some double contacts on the sim card via sim_mgr) to purge all his contacts on his Kaiser -> and clever thing: after sync they are gone now on outlook too.


(PS: I guess from now on he will use Spritebackup as told *g*)

Dunno about you, but when my Contacts on Outlook get deleted, they end up in my default PST file's "Deleted Items" folder, ready to be copied/moved back to the Outlook Contacts folder when I need it.

Unless, of course, I purged the Deleted Items folder as well, in which case, I'd be screwed.

 

[DarkDvr]

Backup, backup... and backup.

 

[licht77]

Dunno about you, but when my Contacts on Outlook get deleted, they end up in my default PST file's "Deleted Items" folder, ready to be copied/moved back to the Outlook Contacts folder when I need it.

Unless, of course, I purged the Deleted Items folder as well, in which case, I'd be screwed.

Uh sorry I forgot... it was so obvious for me that i left this one out: of course was the "deleted items" folder the first thing i investigated... but somehow (dont ask me - its not my system) that folder didnt contain any contacts...

 

[skenobi]

Uh sorry I forgot... it was so obvious for me that i left this one out: of course was the "deleted items" folder the first thing i investigated... but somehow (dont ask me - its not my system) that folder didnt contain any contacts...

Maybe the chap had some kind of "purge Deleted Items on Exit" setting set up?

In any case, methinks it's likely your friend may have to re-build his Contacts.

My own backup routine:
1. My Kaiser? every night
2. My PST file? I make a PST backup of my Contacts folder alone every time I make major changes/additions to my contact list (which is probably at least once a week). And I'll keep a zipped up copy on my thumbdrive or email it to my gmail account.

Quite paranoid about it, actually. About a thousand contacts, mostly business-related.

 

[ach2]

Maybe the chap had some kind of "purge Deleted Items on Exit" setting set up?

In any case, methinks it's likely your friend may have to re-build his Contacts.

My own backup routine:
1. My Kaiser? every night
2. My PST file? I make a PST backup of my Contacts folder alone every time I make major changes/additions to my contact list (which is probably at least once a week). And I'll keep a zipped up copy on my thumbdrive or email it to my gmail account.

Quite paranoid about it, actually. About a thousand contacts, mostly business-related.

Paranoia is GOOOOD... I backup mine to my work laptop, 2 separate drives on my home desktop and also my home laptop. I've only ever lost important data once (in 1992) and once is enough.