Due to my own carelessness - I have lost many of my email folders. I accidently shut down my computer whilst my mail programme was 'compacting' folders, with the result that anything that hadn't been compacted was 'zapped'! Since I damaged the tendon in my hand, I have not been backing up on my computer as well as I should do, or printing - probably the last five or six weeks. I do not keep an address book. If there is any person on this list who has sent me a querey re any email I sent the list, a personal email, a research query - to which I have not replied, then I would appreciate it if you could forward that email to me or repeat it. I apologise for any inconvenience - there was a lot of mail that came in when I got back from my trip and which I hadn't read before I goofed. At this stage, I have tried everything I can, or that others have advised me do to retrieve my lost mail. The files are still there, still show that they have something or lots in them, but no mail retrieval programme seems to be able to read whatever is there. So.............. to ask you to send me whatever it is I owe you a reply to seems to be my only option. Please and thanks. I'm thinking that this must be a *very small* something like how it felt for the National Archives - then the PRO - back in 1922 when they were trying to retrieve some of what they had lost in the civil war. Don't suppose anyone knows of a nice, simple, easy to use email back up programme short of printing out or saving individual mails? Something that works automatically in the background.............. Wouldn't that be nice. Doubt there is such - but, I just had to include it. Jane List Admin