[pcductape] Re: I lost all my email
- From: "Elaine" <Elaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 00:04:24 -0000
Andy any luck yet
Elaine
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrei
To: pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:52 AM
Subject: [pcductape] I lost all my email
Is there a way to recover email that has been deleted? This is what happened
although everything seems hazy now.
I was trying to save a picture that a friend sent me. I didn't notice at the
time that it wasn't in the usual jpeg format. This was my friend's first time
using their scanner. I went into Windows Explorer to the folder where I saved
the pic to see what size it was. I can't remember what the file extension was.
However, the name had a % sign in it and it wouldn't let me delete the pic.
Now I can't remember clearly what happened. I may have tried again and the
system hung up. I did an Alt-Ctrl-Del to do an End Task on Windows Explorer.
Nothing happened for quite awhile so I pressed Reset.
I did my usual selections: "Fix it", "Skip" - I don't remember the rest of
the options - and brought Windows back up.
Earlier I had deleted C:\Windows\Temp and C:\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files. So when Windows came up I Opened the Recycle Bin and clicked to emptied
it. What surprised me was that the items that were scrolling by were txt items
with the names that were email subject headings. I had never seen this happen
before.
I fired up OE. All I had were the folders that you get when you first install
OE: Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items and Drafts. Over 400MB of emails
had disappeared. I had made a backup copy of my OE folders 6 months ago on
another drive and they had disappeared as well.
Please don't laugh. I am running Windows 95 on a P75 machine. I have 3 hard
drives: 1.5 GB, 1.5 GB and 2.4 GB respectively. OE is version 5.5. The active
OE folders were on Drive E. The folders from 6 months ago were on Drive C.
I started a new OE folder on Drive C to write this plea for help. Is there
any way to recover the lost emails and folders?
TIA
Andy
PS
Can someone send the full pcducttape url so I can read on the web?
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