[kcvl]

I have lost about six weeks of email. Can someone PLEASE help???!!!

[vikingchick]

How did it get lost?

[Senator Pardek]

E-mail client/software?

[APBaer]

If you are using Win Xp I believe there is a feature that allows you to reset your computer to a previous time.

So you would note what time you lost the mail, and then set it to the next preceeding time.

Someone else, please fill in the details if you think this will help.

[error99]

Where did you leave it?

[Texasforever]

I have lost about six weeks of email. Can someone PLEASE help???!!!

Call the Pentagon. Sorry couldn't resist.

[TheLion]

Does the e-mail still exist at the service provider(who you pay your monthly bill to)? Maybe they can help.

[ErnBatavia]

I have lost about six weeks of email. Can someone PLEASE help???!!!

I'd suggest getting AOL, but I don't feel like getting flamed tonight. But they do have an "old mail" section, for retrieval.

(Not that this will help your current problem...)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Does your ISP (Internet Service Provider) have a website? Maybe you could retrieve your email from there. My ISP has a website, and I get and compose all of my email from there. That's since my Outlook Express died. Just call them and ask if they have a website where you can retrieve email. I was without email for 2 months before I thought to call and ask them.

[Bella_Bru]

Did you accidently delete it? Did you have a virus? Was it a Yahoo or Hotmail account that you let go and did not check for a while?

[APBaer]

I'll ask just in case.
If you have a program called "Go Back" already installed it would have them

[Rome2000]

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.

[org.whodat]

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.

[Rome2000]

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

[dennisw]

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.

[RLK]

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 .

[BJungNan]

Listen to Jeff Levy on Saturday, call in and ask him how to get your email back. You can listen on the net. Link is at http://jefflevy.com (Sat/Sun 10 am to 1pm Pacific Time). He will love to hear from you, especially if you are not in California.

By the way, you can hear Drudge at the same link. A short download to your computer and you listen through something called HWMeida Manager. Even on a dial up the stream is for the most part uninterputed and if you have DSL it is the same quality as the radio.

[WaterDragon]

XPHome....to restore to earlier setting to recover lost email:

Click on START
Click on Help and Support
A window opens: under Pick A Task, click on "Undo changes to your computer with SYSTEM RESTORE" That gives you another window that will walk you through restoring the computer to an earlier time.

Thank you for asking this question, kcv1. I've lost lots of email I was writing because this demon XP is so unstable. Now, thanks to posters responding to you, I know what to do!

Viva le Free Republic!!!!!

[csvset]

I don't know if this will help; it's a thread from a few weeks ago. Perhaps you could ping some of the folks on that thread as well. Good luck.

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