[adaptivetec] Re: Outlook Express and Compacting
- From: "Jan Santos and Doyle Saylor" <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <adaptivetec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:03:04 -0800
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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