" <jfh@airmail.net>, "Ken Whelan \(E-mail\)" <ken@paceindustries.com>, "Peter Harkins \(E-mail\)" <pharkins@psnet.net>, "Willard L. Bratton Jr. \(E-mail\)" <bratton@ipa.net> Message-ID: <NEBBINFFMMCHDAAEGJIPEEKADGAA.robert@wildweasel.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal From: "Robert W. King" <robert@wildweasel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list outlook-users@egroups.com; contact outlook-users-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list outlook-users@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:outlook-users-unsubscribe@egroups.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:08:20 -0600 Reply-To: outlook-users@egroups.com Subject: Email messages lost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folks! This is embarrassing to admit, but I appear to have lost about four or five months worth of email messages from my Hold folder last night. I still haven't figured out the details of what happened. It appears the folder contents were deleted as I exited my email program. I received no indication of any problem at the time This would all be merely inconvenient and annoying except for the fact that that I then updated my backup copies of my message archive before becoming aware of the loss.. Mind you, I'm a 'belt and suspenders' kind of guy when it comes to maintaining my email archives. I have messages that date back twenty years in that database and I've gone to some lengths to retain them. I keep synchronized working copies of the archive on both my desktop and my laptop machines and I regularly update two complete sets of copies on different hard drives on my desktop machine. In addition, at longer intervals, I write a copy to CD-ROM. In the present instance, I seem to have lost the contents - about 4000 to 5000 messages from my Hold folder. That's the folder where I have been collecting genealogically oriented messages both sent and received from the archive with a view to wading through them one message at a time and acting upon them as needed - updating my genealogical database, corresponding with the sender, updating my address book, what-have-you. We won't discuss the number of man-hours I've expended in the last month wading through my entire database of approximately a hundred thousand messages to identify those messages and move them to the Hold folder for more considered review and action. I can go to my CD-ROM to recover all the more dated messages. The problem is that the CD-ROM was last written in June. That means that all the genealogically oriented messages (naturally the ones I least wanted lose!) since June have gone to that great bit-bucket in the sky where all good little bits and bytes go when they die. Just coincidentally, it also appears that I have suddenly acquired some problems with the hard drive on my laptop - the machine where I was working when the folder contents 'went away.' I've been running Norton Disk Doctor on it, but there appears to be some kind of problem with the directory structure and possibly the fat table on the C: partition. That's computer-speak for "I may have to re-format that entire drive and start over - meaning re-install Windows, re-install all my software, copy several gigabytes of data files from across the network, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." In the interim, whilst I'm diagnosing, repairing and what-not, I call upon the goodness of your hearts to retransmit any messages you sent to me or that I sent to you between 1 Jun 2000 and 15 Oct 2000. I realize that most of you are not compulsive email collectors like I am, but please check your folders for me. Your Sent folder will probably retain any messages you sent to me and the Deleted folder may contain any messages from me - assuming you are not one of those folks that habitually deletes the contents of those folders before exiting your email program. -- Robert W. King I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver! SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959 BellNet: 501-634-2086 InterNet: robert@wildweasel.net http://www.wildweasel.net To unsubscribe, send a message to outlook-users-unsubscribe@egroups.com. To switch to a web or digest subscription, visit http://www.egroups.com/group/outlook-users/