Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-11-26 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Not unless you are running the penelope extension. Stewart At 09:38 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote: Thunderbird does this too I believe On Oct 28, 2009 7:22 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Score another one for Eudora. Stewart At 10:04 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-29 Thread Rich Schinnell
At 12:00 AM 10/29/2009, you wrote: Date:Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:14:01 -0500 From:Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net Subject: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Score another one for Eudora. Stewart I have been using Eudora since

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-29 Thread tjpa
On Oct 28, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Elaine Zablocki wrote: I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm using Eudora is that each email folder has its own file on my hard drive. I back up that drive every few days to an external drive. If there's a failure, at most I lose a few days' email. Modern

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-29 Thread Stewart Marshall
The nice thing about Eudora is that it also strips attachments out of emails and sores them in a separate folder. If I want an attachment, I open the attachments folder and get it. No need to open the email. Plus all the settings for Eudora are stored in files so if I upgrade a computer

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-29 Thread Paul Cannon
Not sure if you saw this Tom. http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:07:42AM -0400, tjpa wrote: On Oct 28, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Elaine Zablocki wrote: I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-29 Thread tjpa
On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Paul Cannon wrote: Not sure if you saw this Tom. http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx One of the comments reads: The PST file is one of the biggest problems with Outlook. Why would

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-29 Thread tjpa
On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Stewart Marshall wrote: The nice thing about Eudora is that it also strips attachments out of emails and sores them in a separate folder. If you insist on restricting comparisons to just Eudora and M$ products there is no argument that M$ is inferior. However

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-29 Thread Vicky Staubly
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, tjpa wrote: On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Paul Cannon wrote: Not sure if you saw this Tom. http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx One of the comments reads: The PST file is one of the biggest

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-28 Thread Elaine Zablocki
I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm using Eudora is that each email folder has its own file on my hard drive. I back up that drive every few days to an external drive. If there's a failure, at most I lose a few days' email. At 10:31 AM 10/18/2009, tjpa wrote: Sorry that we are not more

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-28 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Score another one for Eudora. Stewart At 10:04 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote: I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm using Eudora is that each email folder has its own file on my hard drive. I back up that drive every few days to an external drive. If there's a failure, at most I lose a few

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-28 Thread mike
Thunderbird does this too I believe On Oct 28, 2009 7:22 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Score another one for Eudora. Stewart At 10:04 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote: I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm using Eudora is that ...

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-18 Thread tjpa
On Oct 17, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: Oh? I've been using Outlook for over a decade. I must have received well over a hundred thousand emails by now, and, to the best of my knowledge, I've never lost one. My primary contact at one of the companies I consult for told me a couple

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-18 Thread tjpa
On Oct 18, 2009, at 12:10 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: Part of the Outlook problem that all your emails are in one tarball of a file. When something goes wrong it goes really wrong. Precisely. It is engineered to fail catastrophically.

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-18 Thread tjpa
Sorry that we are not more helpful Gail, but what you have is a big mess. When OE failed it rolled you back to the last time a maintenance backup was made, which in your case is very long ago. There are 3rd party utilities that will try to recover a corrupt mail database or at least

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-18 Thread Chris Dunford
Oh? I've been using Outlook for over a decade. I must have received well over a hundred thousand emails by now, and, to the best of my knowledge, I've never lost one. My primary contact at one of the companies I consult for told me a couple of years ago that he had over half a million in

[CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Gail.Miller
Hi ...I have my C drive waaay too full of stuff and I keep saying I'm going to purge it and purge the email folder but so far I haven't done it. Today the computer was running especially slow so I shut it down (the normal way) and when I rebooted, all this email was missing from my Inbox. I

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Dunford
You didn't even mention what email program you were running It's in the subject line. Outlook Express. Where you running Outlook? This looks like a typical Outlook problem. If so, stop using Outlook or it will eventually happen again. Oh? I've been using Outlook for over a decade. I must

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Dunford
] On Behalf Of Gail.Miller Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:51 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox Hi ...I have my C drive waaay too full of stuff and I keep saying I'm going

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: You didn't even mention what email program you were running It's in the subject line. Outlook Express. Where you running Outlook? This looks like a typical Outlook problem. If so, stop using Outlook or it will

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Dunford
Part of the Outlook problem that all your emails are in one tarball of a file. When something goes wrong it goes really wrong. Backup. :) But I've never needed mine. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread mike
I think in OE there are several tarballs..so it allows you to have multiple instances of something really going wrong. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:10 PM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: Part of the Outlook