07/01 Shit! OutlooExpress 5 just deleted 4 years of crucial personal
files/data on my computer! Since soda doesn't allow telnet anymore
I figured I should configure Outlook...I directed the program to
save the mailspool under d:\xyz\mailspool, all of my stuff was in
d:\xyz, instead of creadting a subdirectory under d:\xyz, outlook
overwrote everything else and it's all gone. What can I do? is
there a way to retrieve anything at all? Please please help!!!!
\_ Restore from backups.
\_ Programs do exists that try to undelete deleleted files..
Just don't write anything more to disk and look at symantec
or norton or something for one of these programs. Just make
sure you don't write anything else to disk until you do that
or the bits that were your email may be over written and lost
forever.
\_ this is a troll, yes? Outlook Express 5 just creates .mbx and
.idx files and does not overwrite as far as I know. What file
format were your existing e-mails stored in? If this is a
legitimate plea for help, post up your e-mail and I'll send you
the 600K undelete program.
\_ No this is NOT troll. Anyway, i just tried a recover program
but was not able to recover anything. Yes outlook saves in
.mbx and .idx files...but I told the program to place the mail
in d:\xyz\mailspool. D:\xyz is wher all my important stuff
from the last 4.5 years are stored. Since the subdirectory
"mailspool" didn't exist, i just assumed that it would create
a subdirectory under D:\xyz. Well for some reason when I
finished d/l'ing the pop mail, all that was left was
d:\xyz\mailspool, everything else under d:\xyz was wiped out.
I kid you not! try this yourself and create configure outlook
as i've said. Even the date on D:\xyz was stamped 7/1/99
instead of 1995 when it was created. send me undelete program
if you have one that works -hitran
\_ it's called "restore".
\_ what OS are you running? I know Outlook Express (v4, and v5)
Win95 doesn't allow you to choose a non-existent directory as
your mail folder, since it brings up that directory tree for
you.
(default C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express) |
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