OOOPPPPS- I Screwed up!!!

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tom mayo

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WHile trying to install a second email account for my wife on our new Road Runner!! :( account.......I actually just installed a new account....and the old one is disappeared somewhere on my hard drive. Hopefully I will get it back with some help from a computer wizard, but as of right now ALL my orders have disappeared.....along with a lot of other cool stuff!! :(:(:(:(:(:(
 
This should cheer you up then, something to gaze lovingly at in your time of need :D
 

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Don't touch that hard drive!

First of all, have you checked your recycle bin? I know that it's obvious, but sometimes, in a panic, people overlook the obvious.

Your mailbox file is still there. It's just been deleted. What that means is that the file name has been removed from the directory, but the data are actually still on your disk. The space occupied by those data is now listed as "available" and when you open any new file, it might grab some of that space. The trick is to restore that directory entry before some other program grabs that space, while the data are still there. There are unerase programs available to do this.

I once lost a year of e-mail. It felt like a year of my life had just been erased.

The other two things you may not realize are on your computer and which are, if you're like me, vital to your memory, are your browser history file and your bookmarks list. I back up my e-mail box, my history file, and my bookmarks on CR-RW every Sunday evening.
 
That photo will strike terror and horror into the strongest of soldiers. Just looking at it gives me chills :)
 
Boy, *hic* Sparks sure does look *hic* pretty after a few brewskis. *hic* :barf:
 
Tom,
I am no Computer wizard, but I have Roadrunner and i did the same thing!!!!! Do NOT do a disk clean-up. As Road-Runner runs with outlook, explorer, and for some 'strange reason, other microsoft software", i carefully searched in the RR Medic files, the windows TEMP Files, the Outlook and explorer files and strangely, I found my whole account in the Microsoft Office 'library". It is NOT gone, just gets renamed and gets shoved SOMEWHERE. Just do not RE-BOOT!!!!! Oops too late, right? My bet is its all still there, use windows explorer and go file by file, folder by folder and it shall be found!!!!! i hope it helps. I found my crap after 10 hours of searching. if I was smart, and called a computer wiz and paid 300 bucks, he/she would have found it in three hours and restored your old account!!!!!
wolf
 
It shouldn't take hours of work to find any file with text in it. If you don't know the filename and can't find in the obvious places, try to remember a string of text that's in that file and unlikely to be in too many other files. For instance, say you remember receiving an email with the string "Cougar is a dork" in it. Click on start, find, files or folders, and tell it to search your whole drive for files containing that string. Then you can go make some coffee, it'll take a while.... But when it's done it'll display every file on your hard drive(s) that contains that string of text, and assuming you don't have a hundred files that say "Cougar is a dork" somewhere in them ... okay, maybe that was a bad example ... try to think of a phrase that isn't too common....
 
:barf: :barf: :barf: Wow! Now I understand why Wheely Bin Laden is such an unhappy chappy! If that was my wife... :eek:
 
Tom, I had something similar happen to me with Outlook Express. If you are using Outlook Express and Windows 98, you may be able to solve the problem this way. The files will be in a directory under
"C:\windows\application data\identities\" If you can find this directory (now called a folder), you will see that it has subdirectories (subfolders) with long number-letter-gibberish names. Each of those has two levels of subfolders "microsoft\outlook express". Chances are your lost files are in one of the "outlook express" bottom subfolders of one of the identities. Problem is that the files are coded and compressed. However they can be recovered by importing them into your current outlook express. Just choose import from the menu in outlook express, point it to the bottom subfolder in (probably) the first of the identities and import the messages (I think that's how I did it). Hope this helps -- good luck.

PlasmaPhase
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Thanks for all the tips....I think I have found them.....but they are in computereze when I open them...will have to get someone over here after church tommorrow to import them back into my email program. Thanks a lot. Sincerely, tom :)
 
I just added "Cougar is a DORK" to my notes in case I loose my files!@!!!!! Just Kidding. YUP, Dad will smack me, cougar will smack me, lifter will bench-press me into a wall....OH NO SPARK!!! YEAH!!!! he is Gone......Spark is the DORK!!!!!
Yup, I will be doing the 9-1-1 Today!!!!! but it's my birthday and it's 0442 AM!!!! more narcotics.....wolf:eek: :eek: :p :eek: :eek:
:eek: :rolleyes:
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