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 atMicroSoft 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. Soundssafer to stick to regular deleting of unwanted garbage instead. By postingyours 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 CompactingHi Patty, It would be a pain, but perhaps you would want to go through your OutlookExpress 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 Deletefolder in any case. If I can help brainstorm anything else, call me; I'llbe 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 weresomesort of DVD's which I had never received. My daughter's boyfriend washere,and he said I had over 6,00 emails in my recycle bin, but I certainlycannotfind them. He said they should all be there. Could he have meant in myDelete folder in Microsoft Outlook? All of those are the increasingly more frequent spam offerings I receive daily. They are more than a bother; theyare an outrage, and there should be a law and penalty against them. Thanks fo ryour help. Patty----- Original Message ----- From: Judith SmithTo: adaptivetec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:51 PM Subject: [adaptivetec] Re: Outlook Express and CompactingI thought that compacting meant making them smaller, as I have done thattoo. If I'm not mistaken, they may be in your recycle bin, I've foundminethere before!----- Original Message ----- From: Pattynash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo: 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 tocreatemore space, adn I assumed this meant they could be made smaller and couldberestored 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 werethemost 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 theywere.dbx files, but when I using that file extension in the "search" the filesIfound were all music files.Does anyone know: Does this mean they are gone? I'm also told we canstore up to two gigabytes on our computer in email program. Thanks verymuch for any assistance or information. Patty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1324 - Release Date: 3/10/08 7:27 PM -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1324 - Release Date: 3/10/087:27 PM