Access two subfolders with the same name

[hellman69]

OK, so I'm not the Exchange admin, but I was pushed into duty and I already made a mess of it. I recreated a mailbox for a AD user. I did not think to save the emails in the sent items folder, just the inbox. Sure enough, the user *needs* those emails. Well, Exchange recreated the mailbox in the mailstore directory with the same folder name and kept the original one. So I have two folders, with the same name, and I can only access the recent one. I would like to get to the original one and copy that folder over, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. Anyone know a trick, besides restoring off of our backup?

Trevor

 

[TGS]

If I'm to understand correctly, you have now two mailboxes? Or Two folders named Inbox?

If it's the former, you should have a new directory name based on a variant of the userid. If you do a mailbox properties the old box should have a seperate ID for each of the boxes. You should have to put in the directory name opposed to using the display name. From there you should be able to copy the mail data from one box to the other through outlook profiles/whatever email client.

 

[spyordie007]

First of all stop looking at the "M" drive; it's not a "real" drive and you're just going to confuse yourself and/or make a further mess of things. They stopped creating it by default because people kept getting in trouble with it.

Open active directory users and computers and remove exchange from his existing account. Than use the exchange system manager to "reconnect" their old mailbox to their account.

Alternatly you could create a temporary user and reconnect the mailbox to that temporary user's account.

-Erik

 

[hellman69]

Thank you both. spyordie007, what you suggested with creating the temp account worked.

Trevor

 

[spyordie007]

Great, glad to hear you were able to get at the data.