Afternoon Deana On vista go into SEARCH at the bottom left line of the opening screen and see if you get anything listed if you search for the term ".pst". If so your old e mails may be there. Regards JOhn M -----Original Message----- From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of deana.smith@btinternet.com Sent: 18 October 2010 15:21 To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] Josephine's dead Acorn! Oh Josephine I so know how you feel. My computer went into a shop as it had a virus which was making it run slowly. A young lad said 'what do you want to save' everything I said documents etc photos. Alas without any warning I lost all my e-mails. I had set up all my family search names and put e-mails regarding the different family history into each name. I did print a paper copy of really important stuff but so many other e-mails, research etc and bits and bobs, interesting discussions re family names, I didn't. The computer chap who set up my computer hadn't ticked copy to server, if he had I could have got the lot back. All gone. Ten years of this and that. At the time it was too awful to imagine, I felt numb, I thought they were just going to get rid of the virus that had slippped through my firewall but even Vista had gone. The one saving grace was that the book I had written was still there, all those words and hours spent. It will be published in February and that is the only saving grace I take from the dreadful expericence in May. Hope all goes well for you and that you get all you want back safe and sound. I love reading your e-mails so full of knowledge and heritage. Good luck from Deana in Hastings. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:47 AM Subject: [B&S] Josephine's dead Acorn! > Hello Listers, > > My beloved Acorn computer suffered a fatal internal error, this morning, > and the hard disc with my huge archive is now in its death throes:-( > > I am now reduced to a PC so I may not be able to send or reply to messages > on such a regular basis as I have done in the past. I find it difficult to > use e-mail on a PC, having been used to the ease and versatility of my > Acorn for so many years. > > My other half tells me that some of my material is retrievable, but this > will mean a lot of fiddling and it may be a winter job. > > However, when one door shuts another one opens and this may be the > opportunity for me to concentrate on living family and friends, for a > change, rather than dead ancestors:-) > > Josephine > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16090) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16100) http://www.pctools.com/ ======= ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi. John. Thanks for reply. I have done what you said. Just one came up from old windows mail. Alas not one of my family history names, but Angel where I kept all her breeders e-mails to me, first photos, and about shows etc. Sadly it's all in notepad so I can't read it. Any ideas. Hope your suggestion helped others as well, these little tips are amazing. Thanks from Deana. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M" <JHWM1@btconnect.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Josephine's dead Acorn! > Afternoon Deana > On vista go into SEARCH at the bottom left line of the opening screen and > see if you get anything listed if you search for the term ".pst". If so > your > old e mails may be there. > Regards > JOhn M > > -----Original Message----- > From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of > deana.smith@btinternet.com > Sent: 18 October 2010 15:21 > To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [B&S] Josephine's dead Acorn! > > Oh Josephine I so know how you feel. My computer went into a shop as it > had > a virus which was making it run slowly. A young lad said 'what do you want > to save' everything I said documents etc photos. Alas without any warning > I > lost all my e-mails. I had set up all my family search names and put > e-mails > > regarding the different family history into each name. I did print a > paper > copy of really important stuff but so many other e-mails, research etc > and > bits and bobs, interesting discussions re family names, I didn't. The > computer chap who set up my computer hadn't ticked copy to server, if he > had > > I could have got the lot back. All gone. Ten years of this and that. At > the > time it was too awful to imagine, I felt numb, I thought they were just > going to get rid of the virus that had slippped through my firewall but > even > > Vista had gone. The one saving grace was that the book I had written was > still there, all those words and hours spent. It will be published in > February and that is the only saving grace I take from the dreadful > expericence in May. Hope all goes well for you and that you get all you > want back safe and sound. I love reading your e-mails so full of knowledge > and heritage. Good luck from Deana in Hastings. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> > To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:47 AM > Subject: [B&S] Josephine's dead Acorn! > > >> Hello Listers, >> >> My beloved Acorn computer suffered a fatal internal error, this morning, >> and the hard disc with my huge archive is now in its death throes:-( >> >> I am now reduced to a PC so I may not be able to send or reply to >> messages >> on such a regular basis as I have done in the past. I find it difficult >> to >> use e-mail on a PC, having been used to the ease and versatility of my >> Acorn for so many years. >> >> My other half tells me that some of my material is retrievable, but this >> will mean a lot of fiddling and it may be a winter job. >> >> However, when one door shuts another one opens and this may be the >> opportunity for me to concentrate on living family and friends, for a >> change, rather than dead ancestors:-) >> >> Josephine >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ======= >> Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. >> (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16090) >> http://www.pctools.com/ >> ======= > > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16100) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16100) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16110) http://www.pctools.com/ =======