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April 6, 2007
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A friend of mine had his computer genius cousin clean up his
computer--he cleaned it up all right--cleaned everything out of it including
some valuable pictures of past events as well as current wedding arrangements
(invites and everything), not to mention all his business forms for his
business. Is there anything, I mean, anything I can do to retrieve this lost
information? Or are we pretty much out of luck. Any advice or available options
you can suggest would be great!
--Submitted by: Wendy J. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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