I just lost ALL of my saved posts..

I just opened RPCA, and tried to get new headers.

Instead, I lost ALL my saved posts and threads, going back to 2001.

The first thread I locked and saved was my post about my Blizzard going
to the Bridge, on April 10, 2001.

I had locked and saved every thread about EVERY RB kitty for many years.

I probably had at least 10,000 saved posts. Now they are all gone

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

"Gandalf" wrote in message
...
I just opened RPCA, and tried to get new headers.

Instead, I lost ALL my saved posts and threads, going back to 2001.

The first thread I locked and saved was my post about my Blizzard going
to the Bridge, on April 10, 2001.

I had locked and saved every thread about EVERY RB kitty for many years.

I probably had at least 10,000 saved posts. Now they are all gone

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

Chances are you can recover them. I've recovered files from hard-drives
that I've f-disked and re-formatted.

Have you tried any recovery software? There are lots of free programs out
there. I can do some research and tell you which programs have worked for
me.

Karla

"Gandalf" wrote in message
...
I just opened RPCA, and tried to get new headers.

Instead, I lost ALL my saved posts and threads, going back to 2001.

The first thread I locked and saved was my post about my Blizzard going
to the Bridge, on April 10, 2001.

I had locked and saved every thread about EVERY RB kitty for many years.

I probably had at least 10,000 saved posts. Now they are all gone

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

I found three that look good, one of which I've used successfully. Go to
www.nonags.com
click on "freeware list" (left side of page)
click on "Disk Tools" listed under "Disk"
scroll down to
Recuva
Fine Recovery
Data Recovery
and see if these would be useful.

No nags is a very good freeware site. All their programs are clean-no
adware, spyware, viruses, trojans, nothing but good code. I've been using
them for years and have never had a problem.

Hope this will be of some help to you.
Karla
oh, the program I've used is Fine Recovery

On Fri, 22 May 2009 04:48:04 -0700, "Karla"
wrote:


"Gandalf" wrote in message
...
I just opened RPCA, and tried to get new headers.

Instead, I lost ALL my saved posts and threads, going back to 2001.

The first thread I locked and saved was my post about my Blizzard going
to the Bridge, on April 10, 2001.

I had locked and saved every thread about EVERY RB kitty for many years.

I probably had at least 10,000 saved posts. Now they are all gone

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

I found three that look good, one of which I've used successfully. Go to
www.nonags.com
click on "freeware list" (left side of page)
click on "Disk Tools" listed under "Disk"
scroll down to
Recuva
Fine Recovery
Data Recovery
and see if these would be useful.

No nags is a very good freeware site. All their programs are clean-no
adware, spyware, viruses, trojans, nothing but good code. I've been using
them for years and have never had a problem.

Hope this will be of some help to you.
Karla
oh, the program I've used is Fine Recovery


Thank you very for your advice, it is much appreciated.

Unfortunately, I lack the computer knowledge to use such sophisticated
programs.

I'm do not understand computers very well.

I did manage to find the version of Agent Forte I'm using: version 1.5,
Copyright 1995-97. It's a Windows 3.11 program

The Help file are incomprehensible to me. They use phrases like
'MIME-encoded', without anywhere defining what MIME is.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:25:37 +0000, Gandalf wrote:

Gandalf, my RPCA archives don't go back as far as yours did. However, for
what it's worth, it should be possible for me to dump my archive to disk
in a format that Agent can use. I'll see if I can't export an RPCA
archive for you and will send it via snail mail or e-mail, whichever you
prefer.

Dan

On 22 May 2009 13:38:19 GMT, Dan M wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:25:37 +0000, Gandalf wrote:

Gandalf, my RPCA archives don't go back as far as yours did. However, for
what it's worth, it should be possible for me to dump my archive to disk
in a format that Agent can use. I'll see if I can't export an RPCA
archive for you and will send it via snail mail or e-mail, whichever you
prefer.

Dan

Thank you, Dan

If would have to be snail mail, as my E-mail won't take big files.

But I haven't any idea how to get Agent to accept a new file of posts.

Would it be hard to explain to me? I'm not at all computer savvy,
unfortunately.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:25:37 GMT, (Gandalf) wrote:

I did manage to find the version of Agent Forte I'm using: version 1.5,
Copyright 1995-97. It's a Windows 3.11 program

Are you sure you have the right View option set to see your read Kept
messages?


I'm on version 5 of Agent, so I don't know what options there were in
1.5. Is there a "Repair Selected Folders" or something similar (I don't
think Agent called them folders back then) under File, or maybe some
kind of repair function under Action?

On Fri, 22 May 2009 11:50:16 -0500, Lorraine
wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:25:37 GMT, (Gandalf) wrote:

I did manage to find the version of Agent Forte I'm using: version 1.5,
Copyright 1995-97. It's a Windows 3.11 program

Are you sure you have the right View option set to see your read Kept
messages?


I'm on version 5 of Agent, so I don't know what options there were in
1.5. Is there a "Repair Selected Folders" or something similar (I don't
think Agent called them folders back then) under File, or maybe some
kind of repair function under Action?


My version dates back to 1995.

There's nothing at all like you describe; nothing like 'find the 10,000
deleted posts, and the threads they were in'

"Gandalf" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 22 May 2009 04:48:04 -0700, "Karla"
wrote:


"Gandalf" wrote in message
...
I just opened RPCA, and tried to get new headers.

Instead, I lost ALL my saved posts and threads, going back to 2001.

The first thread I locked and saved was my post about my Blizzard going
to the Bridge, on April 10, 2001.

I had locked and saved every thread about EVERY RB kitty for many years.

I probably had at least 10,000 saved posts. Now they are all gone

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

I found three that look good, one of which I've used successfully. Go to
www.nonags.com
click on "freeware list" (left side of page)
click on "Disk Tools" listed under "Disk"
scroll down to
Recuva
Fine Recovery
Data Recovery
and see if these would be useful.

No nags is a very good freeware site. All their programs are clean-no
adware, spyware, viruses, trojans, nothing but good code. I've been using
them for years and have never had a problem.

Hope this will be of some help to you.
Karla
oh, the program I've used is Fine Recovery


Thank you very for your advice, it is much appreciated.

Unfortunately, I lack the computer knowledge to use such sophisticated
programs.

I'm do not understand computers very well.

I did manage to find the version of Agent Forte I'm using: version 1.5,
Copyright 1995-97. It's a Windows 3.11 program

The Help file are incomprehensible to me. They use phrases like
'MIME-encoded', without anywhere defining what MIME is.

I know it can be terribly frustrating. Most of the stuff they tell you, you
don't need to know, while they leave out the stuff you do need.

If you decide you'd like to try to recover your files, I could walk you
through it or write it out step by step. If I could do it, believe me, you
can too.

And, if it doesn't work (but I've nevcr seen it fail) you haven't hurt
anything, nothing is changed or damaged. All you will have lost is some
time (and I know that's mighty precious too).

Good luck to you, and please don't hesitate to ask if you'd like me to help.
My email here works, and I'll be home all day. Doing projects, but home. I
check my computer obsessively so it's easy to contact me.

Karla

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"Gandalf" wrote in message
...
I just opened RPCA, and tried to get new headers.

Instead, I lost ALL my saved posts and threads, going back to 2001.

The first thread I locked and saved was my post about my Blizzard going
to the Bridge, on April 10, 2001.

I had locked and saved every thread about EVERY RB kitty for many years.

I probably had at least 10,000 saved posts. Now they are all gone

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

One more suggestion-Google has the newsgroups archived back to 1981,
including RPCA. You can find all the posts you've saved there. It would be
tedious, but not difficult.

Just let me know if you want to know more about this option.
Karla