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Jennifer Fitzsimmons - 06 Jun 2005 20:04 GMT

I was cleaning up my computer and must have trashed a file I obviously
needed....

I noticed memory was low so I deleted a couple of folders, I don't remember
which ones but I did empty the trash. None the the folders were labeled
Outlook

A few hours later I opened up Outlook Express and got a pop up window that
said welcome to Outlook Express we'll help you set up. I knew then it
wasn't good but it did give me the option to import messages.

The problem is it doesn't import messages from the last year, everything is
from 2001-2003 and then it jumps to new messages received today 6/6/05.

Where are my messages from 2004 and these first few months of 2005.

Maybe it was a different version of Outlook Express I don't know.

Are they gone forever??

Thanks!

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TG Online (MVP) - 07 Jun 2005 13:19 GMT

> I was cleaning up my computer and must have trashed a file I obviously
> needed....
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>
> Thanks!

I'm guessing that you've run the file import utility which has imported
content from OE 4.x (OE 5.x content cannot be imported in this manner).
This would explain why you've only restored your old mail. New mail is then
received as normal, and everything that was only ever stored in OE 5.x has
disappeared. This could have happened because you deleted the Messages and
Database files within the Identities folder, or the entire Identities folder
itself. If this is the case, you would need to try a file recovery
application to retrieve your old data, but I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope
for this to work - results will vary.

Ricky

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