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Date: 16 Oct 2000 19:22:41 +0200

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Hi folks!

This is embarrassing to admit, but I appear to have lost about four or five
months worth of email messages from my Hold folder last night. I still
haven't figured out the details of what happened. It appears the folder
contents were deleted as I exited my email program. I received no indication
of any problem at the time This would all be merely inconvenient and
annoying except for the fact that that I then updated my backup copies of my
message archive before becoming aware of the loss..

Mind you, I'm a 'belt and suspenders' kind of guy when it comes to
maintaining my email archives. I have messages that date back twenty years
in that database and I've gone to some lengths to retain them. I keep
synchronized working copies of the archive on both my desktop and my laptop
machines and I regularly update two complete sets of copies on different
hard drives on my desktop machine. In addition, at longer intervals, I write
a copy to CD-ROM.

In the present instance, I seem to have lost the contents - about 4000 to
5000 messages from my Hold folder. That's the folder where I have been
collecting genealogically oriented messages both sent and received from the
archive with a view to wading through them one message at a time and acting
upon them as needed - updating my genealogical database, corresponding with
the sender, updating my address book, what-have-you. We won't discuss the
number of man-hours I've expended in the last month wading through my entire
database of approximately a hundred thousand messages to identify those
messages and move them to the Hold folder for more considered review and
action.

I can go to my CD-ROM to recover all the more dated messages. The problem is
that the CD-ROM was last written in June. That means that all the
genealogically oriented messages (naturally the ones I least wanted lose!)
since June have gone to that great bit-bucket in the sky where all good
little bits and bytes go when they die.

Just coincidentally, it also appears that I have suddenly acquired some
problems with the hard drive on my laptop - the machine where I was working
when the folder contents 'went away.' I've been running Norton Disk Doctor
on it, but there appears to be some kind of problem with the directory
structure and possibly the fat table on the C: partition. That's
computer-speak for "I may have to re-format that entire drive and start
over - meaning re-install Windows, re-install all my software, copy several
gigabytes of data files from across the network, et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera."

In the interim, whilst I'm diagnosing, repairing and what-not, I call upon
the goodness of your hearts to retransmit any messages you sent to me or
that I sent to you between 1 Jun 2000 and 15 Oct 2000. I realize that most
of you are not compulsive email collectors like I am, but please check your
folders for me. Your Sent folder will probably retain any messages you sent
to me and the Deleted folder may contain any messages from me - assuming you
are not one of those folks that habitually deletes the contents of those
folders before exiting your email program.

--
Robert W. King
I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver!
SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959
BellNet: 501-634-2086
InterNet:
http://www.wildweasel.net


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