Restoring outlook.pst?!?!?

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Gone, bye bye!

<piper73@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am running Windows 2000 Professional with Office 2000.
>
> I have just now (totally by mistake) deleted my entire
> recent Outlook 2000 folders (though luckily I did back
> them up 3 weeks ago). I meant to delete only one, but did
> not realize that I had placed ALL of them in the recycle
> bin, and automatically agreed when it asked if I wanted to
> permanently delete items from the recycle bin!
>
> Is there a way to recover them or are they lost forever?
>
> Thanks for any help