Need email help - quickly!

cockroachfarm

cockroachfarm

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Just typed a LONG email to a business associate. When I clicked on SEND, the internet connect was lost (happens frequently at our house). When it re-established, of course the entire text I had typed for 15 minutes was GONE! Is there a way of recovering what I typed WITHOUT having a keystroke shadow program installed? (I don't) My ISP says, "No. You have to set up "auto-save", which I didn't have. (Not on my email anyway; when I write a script, I have my WP set to auto-save every five minutes!)

Is there ANY way to recover this text? Some hidden "back-up file" that I don't know about? :o :( :o Or am I scre*ed? :D
 
Look in your OUTBOX / DRAFTS Folder, the email should be there. Emails don't just disappear if you can't connect.
 
Thanks, guys - those are the FIRST places I looked. :D Nothing, nada, nichts. :mad: (The ISP tech-support drone suggested that I use "auto-save" set to every 10 min. from now on - and I checked and there's no such feature, as far as I can see).

For future reference - is there an application available that SAVES every keystroke somewhere when I enter text? That would be very useful for me.
 
Type your emails up in Word or another word processoer first, then copy-and-paste them into you email program for sending. You get the added bonus's of spell and/or grammar check, too!
 
Are you using an e-mail program, like Outlook Express, or just typing online? If you're typing online it's no suprise that it's gone. It would be like starting a BladeForum post, turning off the computer, and trying to finish it later. If you're using an email program, I don't know why it wouldn't be in the Sent Items or Drafts folder...

The Word suggestion is a good one. Even send the Word document as an attachment, so the formatting is intact.

-Bob
 
Gmail constantly reminds me it has auto-saved an intermediate text as I'm working on it.
 
Maybe it was just your computer's way of telling you that with 15 minutes of typing, that you are either too slow of a typist, or too "long-winded"?.:D.:D.
 
Grim/Don said:
Type your emails up in Word or another word processoer first, then copy-and-paste them into you email program for sending. You get the added bonus's of spell and/or grammar check, too!
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Grim/Don's idea is what I used before I switched to Gmail. Gmail automatically saves drafts while you are typing. It's free too! :o
 
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