[adaptivetec] Re: Outlook Express and Compacting

  • From: "Pattynash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pattynash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <adaptivetec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:14:30 -0700

Thank you so very much!! I am sorry that Doyle lost all of his files, and just losing a four months worth has thrown me for a sort of a loop. I had printed my email confirmation from Homeshopping at Safeway, which I never do, but providentially (there's that word again) I did, so was able to talk with the Customer Service representative about my order. They had charged me a whole $20.00 more than I was supposed to pay, and it was because I'd ordered some packages of snack fig bars for lunches when in fact they had sent me five large packages of fig bars for twenty dollars! (They must have thought I had a day care center! We'd all have been eating fig bars at the center! But I received a $20.00 credit to my card! 

I hope jno one else has to experience what we have experienced.
NO COMPACTING!!!!!

Love,
Patty
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Santos and Doyle Saylor" <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <adaptivetec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:03 AM
Subject: [adaptivetec] Re: Outlook Express and Compacting



Patty,
After I wrote last night, I mentioned to Doyle your problem, and he said the same thing happened to him once, and compacting mailboxes in Outlook Express resulted in the deletion of all his files. So I guess what they told you at 
MicroSoft is true, that compacting equals deletion.  Doyle said he thinks
it's a bug in the program.  Whatever the reason, compacting sounds like
death to me, and I'll never go near it after hearing all of this.  Sounds
safer to stick to regular deleting of unwanted garbage instead. By posting 
yours and Doyle's trouble, hopefully we'll prevent someone else from the
same disaster.

Jan.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Santos and Doyle Saylor" <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <adaptivetec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:24 PM
Subject: [adaptivetec] Re: Outlook Express and Compacting



Hi Patty,

It would be a pain, but perhaps you would want to go through your Outlook
Express Delete folder manually one by one to see if your emails are there. 
Also, it would be a good idea to empty out all the spam from your Delete
folder in any case. If I can help brainstorm anything else, call me; I'll 
be up until about 10:00 p.m.

Jan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pattynash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pattynash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <adaptivetec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:57 PM
Subject: [adaptivetec] Re: Outlook Express and Compacting


Dear Judith,
I checked my recycle bin, and I had only two items in it and they were

some

sort of DVD's which I had never received. My daughter's boyfriend was

here,

and he said I had over 6,00 emails in my recycle bin, but I certainly

cannot

find them. He said they should all be there. Could he have meant in my
Delete folder in Microsoft Outlook? All of those are the increasingly more frequent spam offerings I receive daily. They are more than a bother; they 
are an outrage, and there should be a law and penalty against them.
Thanks fo ryour help.

Patty
----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Smith 
  To: adaptivetec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:51 PM
  Subject: [adaptivetec] Re: Outlook Express and Compacting
I thought that compacting meant making them smaller, as I have done that 
too.  If I'm not mistaken, they may be in your recycle bin, I've found

mine

there before!
----- Original Message ----- From: Pattynash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    To: adaptive technology list
    Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:38 PM
    Subject: [adaptivetec] Outlook Express and Compacting


    Dear List,
    I have often received the prompt that I could compact my files to

create

more space, adn I assumed this meant they could be made smaller and could

be

restored if I needed to access them in the future. Today I agreed to
compacting files and 2,00 of them were deleted from my inbox. They were

the

most current and had not been cataloged. I asked the technology service
providerand he said that compacting meant exactly that, Compacting as in
trash compactor.
    If these files are indeed gone I'll accept it, but I'd like to be
certain. How would I access them again?  A friennd suggested that they

were
.dbx files, but when I using that file extension in the "search" the files 
I

found were all music files.
Does anyone know: Does this mean they are gone? I'm also told we can 
store up to two gigabytes on our computer in email program.

    Thanks verymuch for any assistance or information.

    Patty


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