2 words, Thunderbird or "the bat" Well ok 3, but if you can't go Mac,
Go open source.
F... M$
Larry
On Nov 2, 2006, at 11:32 AM, RBHouston@aol.com wrote:
> Off topic, but I could use some help.
>
> Tuesday afternoon my email on Outlook Express (yes I know there are
> other
> programs and Apple is better, etc, but I am stuck with this for
> now) took a
> dump. All emails from 10/16/06 forward disappeared. Some 40-60
> emails a day.
> Also, I could send messages, but not recieve them. Actually, they
> appreared
> to be received, but would not show up in my inbox.
>
> After our "Director of Systems" came and spent some 8 hours+
> working on
> this, things are restored...BUT he deleted three years worth of
> folders
> containing all my business correspondence and reports for vendors
> and customers.
>
> I had deleted a few thousand "less important" emails yesterday, and
> a few of
> the missing emails (like 6) showed up.
>
> All of the "missing" emails from the 31st and 1st are there now,
> but heaven
> help me if I need any of my old stuff.
>
> Is there a setting I don't know about that limits the size of the
> files/folders in Outlook? If that's the case, why wouldn't
> deleting a few of the
> folders allow the 60 or so missing emails to appear?
>
> Again, I know Microsoft is the devil and Outlook is useless, yadda,
> yadda,
> yadda, but any advice on how to save, recover, my old emails, and
> how to
> prevent this recurring in the future. I know my wife's work
> limits her number of
> emails at the server and she is forced to delete the old ones, but
> I've never
> had that problem in the past, and I can't tell you how may times
> finding a
> year old email has saved my ass.
>
>
> Robert Houston
> Texan in NM
>
> 73 MG Midget
> 74.5 MGBGT
> 63 TR4
>
>
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macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
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Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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