OOOPPPPS- I Screwed up!!!

Hmm ... you could put easy-to-remember phrases in all your files in advance to make them easier to find if you lose them -- "Cougar is a dork" in one file, "Spark is a dork" in another....

A better way to prepare for possible emergencies is to BACK UP YOUR FILES, DORK!

How often? How much work are you willing to lose? I keep my word processor set to make an automatic backup every five minutes -- I'm willing to lose five minutes work. I make a backup to a second hard drive about every fifteen minutes, and at the end of every session. I make backups on cd frequently and store some of them off-site. If you're running any kind of business ... one of our members here who is a nicer guy than he is a good businessman lost an entire month of orders -- he didn't know who had ordered what or whether they had paid for it already or not, either, for an entire month. There is just no excuse for that. It only takes a second to make a backup -- write a macro for it.
 
It is MONDAY and after what I posted, I am ALIVE and not bleeding...............................................YET
wolf:) :(
 
The WORST part of that picture is that I know the guy that created it. And yes it's they authors modified likeness.
 
Originally posted by tom mayo
Thanks for all the tips....I think I have found them.....but they are in computereze when I open them...
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If you think you found them, then you must have been able to read the messages (Outlook Express does not compress or code them). What looks strange is all the attachments (they are turned into text for trasmitting) and html-garbage as well as the message headers. In case you can not import them (you should be able to do that), you can still read these with some text-program (at least the plain text parts).
Did you really have all your orders only in your emails? Maybe it's time you started transferring them onto an Excel sheet or some other place for more safety and easier backup. Of course, now that you know where the emails are stored and how they can be imported back again, you can just backup those files like any other files. I even believe that you can copy the backup files directly over the corrupted email files and then just start OE and it would use them. This worked with older versions of OE - but you must backup all the files there.

Anyways, I hope you got it all back and working again!

Hugo.
 
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