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Thread ID: 97526	2009-02-19 01:36:00	Moron accidently deleted all emails in inbox...	Beemer (6956)	Press F1

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749198	2009-02-19 20:47:00	Right, I have gone into backup on Outlook (using Office 2003) and set to backup daily. I had actually set this to do a weekly backup at some stage (it said I already had the feature installed) but something had obviously gone wrong as I don't recall it showing that 'saving backup' message for a long time. I probably overwrote this by doing a backup this morning, so the old stuff isn't recoverable any more. I can't see any option to save a copy as well and it appears to be saving this to my hard drive (C) - is that okay or should I be saving it to the external hard drive? I have another problem now though - I worked out how to save a copy of the messages on the server, but now I am getting multiple copies of each email, and also multiple copies of every email I send are being saved in the sent folder. I'm thinking this is probably because I have one Paradise email account with five additional aliases on it - should I just choose to save a copy of the main account, and by default would that cover all the aliases (but not save multiple copies of them)? For those who can't understand how I deleted my inbox, I think this is what I did - I had deleted a pile of emails and then clicked Control A to permanently delete them from the deleted folder. I then deleted something else and couldn't understand why the deleted folder was full... so I did Control A again and clicked yes to permanently delete them. I then clicked back to in inbox and discovered it was empty - I hadn't been in the deleted folder when I chose to delete everything the first time, so the contents of my inbox had all been deleted - and I then chose to permanently delete them, sending them into the ether forever! But after reading SKT174's post, I may very well have hit shift instead of control so that may be what actually happened.	Beemer (6956)
749199	2009-02-19 22:41:00	+1 for outlook backup tool I use the backup tool and backup weekly for our pop users, and then just leave messages on the server for at least 7 days, then you will loose nothing, that way you are not nagged too much and your webmail wont get too full:thanks Still amazes me MS havent allowed the pst file to be backed up once outlook is open....	Gobe1 (6290)
749200	2009-02-20 01:39:00	I have been forwarding some email through a gmail account and it happen a couple of times that I went back and searched through the webmail(as I leave email on the server, after download in Outlook). There are approx. 4000 messages there and it only takes a small amount of the 7Gb of available space. I would say thumbs up for gmail(if I'm alowed to say that here)	notechyet (4479)
749201	2009-02-20 03:07:00	Hi Beemer I have just looked through some old copies of postings I keep for my own records and here is one from someone who lost all thewir emaiuls using Outlook along with an answer which might be worth looking at . Worth a punt , . Posts: 29 Recovering deleted e-mail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just deleted an important message due to being trigger happy on the delete button then emptied the deleted folder I am using outlook and did a search but not sure if the same applied as the posts were a few years old . HELP!! jd74 View Public Profile Send a private message to jd74 Find More Posts by jd74 Add jd74 to Your Contacts 07-09-2006, 06:57 PM #2 Len Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 9 Re: Recovering deleted e-mail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go to . pcworld . com/downloads/fil . . . scription . html" target="_blank">www . pcworld . com DBXtrat is free and easy to use . I lost 50% of all my emails all in many folders but managed to get back 90% using this small down loadable program . Hope it works . LEN . . .	willbry (1555)
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