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How do you recover lost email?!!
11/24/02 | Me

Posted on 11/24/2002 7:32:02 PM PST by kcvl

HELP!!!


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To: Senator Pardek
LOL!
I was just fixin' to ask how you spelled that.

And so sorry if any mail 'went missing'.
41 posted on 11/24/2002 7:52:02 PM PST by LurkerNoMore!
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To: LurkerNoMore!
It only "disappears" when my machine does not boot (I keep forgetting about that new invention - quill and parchment).
42 posted on 11/24/2002 7:53:26 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: kcvl
Go to the file

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail

Use your "Find Files" to get there.

There will be a bunch of folders in there. Use the "Open With" command to read what is inside(open with the "Notepad" program)

You will probably find the text of most of the e-mails you thought were were gone from your system even if you emptied the deleted items folder.

43 posted on 11/24/2002 7:54:59 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: Lowelljr
cox-internet.com
44 posted on 11/24/2002 8:00:53 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Have you found your problem? If you wish to back up the registry for a day or two I can tell you how? If you have done something within in the past three days that caused the loss of the email, restoring the registry will fix it. What you really do is back up the system to a good date.
45 posted on 11/24/2002 8:11:08 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: cubreporter
You LIKE AOHell. You've got to be kidding me. I have it and hate it. Too much bandwith to download when logging on. AOL is good if you have kids because they have all the anti adult features. I hate AOL. My husband refuses to get rid of it. We will soon be buying a new computer and trust me we will NOT have AOL. I'm standing my ground on this one.

I do know what you mean though. When you delete email, it's still stored in "Recently Deleted Mail". So a deleted email can be retrieved from there.

46 posted on 11/24/2002 8:13:53 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: kcvl
Dude...get a Dell.
47 posted on 11/24/2002 8:16:12 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: kcvl
Your emails have been shredded by the Clinton's.

Sleep well tonight!

48 posted on 11/24/2002 8:18:52 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: Rome2000; kcvl

He said he uses WindowsXP. In his case the DBX files would be located in C:\Documents and Settings\(login name)\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{..big long string of characters..}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\

49 posted on 11/24/2002 8:19:43 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: kcvl
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\....\Microsoft\Outlook Express

This folder has copies of deleted mail even after it has been deleted from the deleted items folder.

It may have a slightly different name on your machine, but you can find it by using the "Find" command .

Type in Outlook express or outlook in the "Find" command

50 posted on 11/24/2002 8:19:44 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: Cultural Jihad
Right, I don't know how it's set up in XP but thats the general idea.
51 posted on 11/24/2002 8:20:51 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: org.whodat
That XP feature is called "System Restore."
52 posted on 11/24/2002 8:20:56 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: kcvl
I have lost about six weeks of email. Can someone PLEASE help???!!!

Your e-mail is not lost becasue you don't know how to delete a dbx file. I don't know where XP puts the Outlook dbx files but someone here does. You must import these files. Even this is prolly not necessary since you likely just put your mouse in the wrong place and they are still in Outlook as you see it.

53 posted on 11/24/2002 8:24:01 PM PST by dennisw
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To: Cultural Jihad
"That XP feature is called "System Restore."

And someone has posted that he thinks it would not restore data but only programs.

I don't know.
54 posted on 11/24/2002 8:24:17 PM PST by APBaer
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To: MotleyGirl70
That would NOT surprise me in the least!
55 posted on 11/24/2002 8:30:56 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Unless you did a secondary erase/revision the messages are still in the inbox file but marked so as not to be shown. The file can be accessed with a word processor .
56 posted on 11/24/2002 9:30:33 PM PST by RLK
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To: kcvl
Go to http://www.cox-internet.com/

On the right hand side is a place to type in your email address and your password.

See if you still have email there.

Good Luck Kcvl from a fellow FReeper.

57 posted on 11/24/2002 10:34:51 PM PST by LowOiL
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To: jbind
Why shouldn't they only track email of suspected terrorists rather than innocent freepers? Oh that's right, everybody is a suspsect according to the admin.

You have that right. I have been fighting off the storm troopers all night. They are everywhere, under my bed, hiding in the bushes, black helicopters circling my house and the chip implant is itching like crazy.

59 posted on 11/24/2002 10:39:13 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: Lowelljr
Thank you so much! I appreciate EVERYONE'S HELP!!!

60 posted on 11/24/2002 10:43:53 PM PST by kcvl
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