Outlook *.pst moved, lost when moving Office 2010 Docs. to new disk

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I have Dell XPS 8700 with Windows 8.1 and Office 2010 installed. I use Outlook 2010 for mail and Comcast is my ISP. I have Outlook set up to keep all messages on server.
I am planning to move to a SSD soon. I want to make the size of my C: smaller so I can move program files there and have data on HDD.
I moved the Docs. and downloads from C; to two separate partitions, one on same HDD as C; and one that is on another drive.
I did not know that moving these files would also move my Outlook .pst files until next day. I went to Outlook the next day [today]and can’t find current data for Outlook.
I was able to find a .pst file and I moved it to the Outlook window. No email newer than 8/4 shows up.
I went into Account settings and looked to see if setting were the same. They seem to be. I went into ‘change’ to look, while there I sent test message.
The test message has not shown up. I went to send/ Receive and click on Send/receive all folders. Nothing happened. no email downloaded.
I went to Comcast webmail and sent email to myself, it is not there either.
I stopped to call for help before I mess anything up worse. At this point, I would be happy to move docs and downloads back onto the C; and wait and do new install on SSD when I get it and not worry yet about the space. Anyone have any ideas for fixing this.
Thanks for any help.

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Did you backup before performing those changes? An image backup would be the recommended procedure and would allow you to recover very gracefully from this situation.

That not being possible, I would try Control Panel -> Mail,then Data Files, to check where Outlook expects the files to be. That should give you an idea of the files location, considering how you moved them.

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Hi, Thank you for your prompt reply. and of course, I had not done drive image in awhile. I don’t do them when just moving files.
I knew I was moving the save location Word files. I did not realize that would move the Outlook info. And even more that outlook would then be broken. That is no new emails are showing up when I open Outlook, although emails are in my Webmail. Unfortunately my address book is not synced from Outlook to web mail. That is another issue.

I had gotten to same place for file location in outlook/file/account settings. Both ways show same file location.It shows the files are there at j:Outlook-data-filesemail-address It shows as a *.pst file. But still outlook only shows emails from two weeks ago, This even though I have sent various test messages.

Is it possible to move/change the Word save location back to c: ? Is that likely to restore Outlook functioning?
I am hesitant to make any more changes without consultation.

Thanks for you assistance.

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The only thing you did was moving Word files save location? How did you do that? Can you describe the procedure?

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Certainly.
I went to Word 2010/file/options/save/
There I changed both the ‘auto-recover file location’ and the default file location.
D…m, When I just now went into this location, I see that the word documents location has not changed, as I had thought I had done.
I had actually moved the Document file from c: to another actual drive, not just a partition[j:]
so no I am not at all sure what I did to break Outlook 2010.

After I had made the change I thought I had done with Word, Outlook was acting as described, i.e. only showing info from Aug. 4 and before, not accepting new email, even test messages. I went through the Account setting in Outlook, to be sure there were no changes. I did try sending myself a test message. It did not arrive.

At that time I went to Account setting again. This time I did change the ‘Data files’ location to the J: drive.
Still no functioning email in Outlook. This change which I made,was after the problem began with Outlook.
Sorry to complicate things. I hope you can help. Thanks for trying.

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So your documents folder has been moved to j:? If so, have you tried moving it back?

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HI, Yes, I have just done that. No change.

I can only find, thorough search, “my email address.pst” in one location, first in J: and now that I have moved it, it is in C:. But either way, outlook only opens with emails no later than 8/4/2014. No new emails are coming or going. There are no messages when I send email to my other accounts.
I don’t know if this has any effect. As I use Comcast, I have set up Xfinity Connect. This is to sync my contacts between my Outlook and my webmail online.
With these problems, I went to my webmail, all my contacts online are gone. I have spoken to Comcast and they are working on it, they say.
I just tried to sync from the broken Outlook to Xfinity, via Xfinity Connect. Outlook says it was synced successfully. However, the contacts are still not online.

So situation now is I have broken outlook on computer. It has a list of Contacts. But I can’t send or receive any email.

On Webmail, I can send and receive emails, but my contacts are gone, and I can’t sync from computer.
So strange.
Thanks for any ideas.

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When you try to send or receive email, what happens? Do you get error messages?

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Hi Rurib, When I try to send email in outlook, the messages stay in outbox. They are no error messages, but they won’t go.

1. I am wondering if Office has a repair option, where I could repair Outlook, without deleting all the data. Do you think that is a possibility?

2. Tonight,I am going to check my laptop. I believe it has Outlook on it. I don’t often use outlook on the laptop, but I think I have not broken that Outlook. Maybe I will have a better way to get the data from Outlook.
I will send info about that tomorrow. Again, thanks for all of your help.

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Well, This is over now. Np idea what has happened, but whole machine has crashed.
I appreciate all your efforts.
After Dell finishes with it I guess I will have to re-install Office 2010.
Again thanks.

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Sorry about that. I also apologize for missing the previous message, not sure how that happened.

Let us know how it goes when you have the computer back.

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Hi , Dell did a great job with re-installing Win8.1 and Office 2010.
And I am able to send and receive Yah!!
I now have three ‘in-boxes’ in the navigation email on Outlook. I will
send info on that issue after I get other things settled. Thank you very much for all of your help.
Hollis

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Glad it’s getting sorted :).

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