When I do something dumb, I always am grasping at straws to figure out how to recover without losing any of my precious data. That's the mode I was in, trying to give advice (even though I don't know how Outlook stores messages.) I was hoping that Linda could take my advice and use it to get to the next step (whatever that may have been) in order to get back her deleted data. So it was part wishful thinking and part desparation that caused me to offer advice. She did say she found some outlook.xxx mysterious file so I (as well as others on this list) were hoping that recovery was possible although none of us wrote any sure fire method. The bottom line is that you are 100% correct Greg, but it doesn't stop us from at least giving it a try. Don Elias On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:46:03 -0600 "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Not picking on James, here. I just picked his name at random for this thread. > > I'm a little mystified on this question and the answers suggesting the > use of an undelete program. These applications are for restoring items > from the file system. Outlook uses a database to store messages and, > because of this, deleting a message never actually produces anything > that a file undelete program will be able to see. > > Ami I missing something? > > Greg Chapman > http://www.mousetrax.com > "Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11! > With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?" > > ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************