I just lost ALL of my saved posts..

On Fri, 22 May 2009 17:14:20 GMT, (Gandalf) wrote:

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

If only it were so easy!

You did check to make sure you didn't inadvertently change your subject
view, right? If the keyboard shortcut is the same as the later versions
to check this, it is accessible by typing the letter v. If not, then it
is accessible by clicking on the binocular looking icon at the top of
the message list in the Subject section.

On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:14:26 -0700, "Karla"
wrote:


"Gandalf" wrote in message
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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

................................................. ............................

Thank you for your very kind offer.

I have to leave until sometime this evening.

I will need the step by step help, unfortunately.

I have plenty of time this weekend, so whenever you have the time.

My E--mail is good too.

This evening perhaps; I'm on Central Time, BTW

Or whenever you have time on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday; I have Monday
off of work.

Many thanks!

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

"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


Many Thanks!

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.

I'm not sure how to do it either; my expertise is with servers, not so
much with personal workstations. But I'll see what I can learn about the
process. It will probably take me a week or so to get everything
together, but I'll do my best to get as many articles as I can find
restored to you.

Of course if Karla's idea works out we won't have to worry about it.

Dan

"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


I had a similar computer crash about a month ago. Lots of my folders in
Outlook Express were gone and my desktop icons had rearranged themselves.
I eventually found the lost messages by using "hidden files" option, but
they have made themselves into dbx files which I cannot retrieve.
I tried restore to the previous week but it didn't do the trick.
My computer is completely clean, I run more than enough virus checkers and
malware stuff so I haven't a clue why it happened.
I have no advice to offer as I don't use Agent but I wished I'd taken advice
about backing up to a CD or disc. In other words copy the stuff to a CD or
disc. It's not difficult and anyone can advise you how to do it as you say
you are not experienced on the computer.
I was too complacent and lost a lot of wonderful photos and emails. They
are still there in the crevices of my computer, but I cannot get them out..

Tweed

On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:14:39 GMT, (Gandalf) wrote:

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

I'm sorry about that... but if you go to google groups you can
probably retrieve the ones that are most important to you... if you
can remember the header you can do a search for it and then
copy-and-paste or email it to yourself.

"Karla" wrote in message
...

"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, you are a saint. This is what rpca is all about, helping other
members with the expertise you have.
I can only say I know a lot about dogs, chickens and child protection and
will freely offer my knowledge to anyone who thinks it might help.
Cats, well I am not an expert. I know a lot more since I joined the group.
I knew exactly why my friend's cat moved out when her divorced son moved in
with his own cat with toilet issues. There was trouble with the neighbours
who had taken her in about returning her and they did not seem inclined to
do so so there was a stand-off that might have been brought to court and the
cat, Katy, was not allowed out.
I visited my friend today and Katy was in the garden. I said "I thought she
was not allowed out" Sue explained that son's cat, Cherry, had got a severe
illness and had to go to the Bridge in March.
Katy has never left her home since then.
They just hated each other. Cherry was one of the most attractive cats I've
ever seen. Like a Siamese in colour, but smaller and with a longish coat, I
think they said she was a Himalayan. Beautiful girl.
But it seems she never got the hang of the litterbox and was always thin.
The vet thought there was something not right since birth but she did
manage to live to 16, thanks to her slave

Tweed

Christina Websell wrote:

I had a similar computer crash about a month ago. Lots of my folders in
Outlook Express were gone and my desktop icons had rearranged themselves.
I eventually found the lost messages by using "hidden files" option, but
they have made themselves into dbx files which I cannot retrieve.
I tried restore to the previous week but it didn't do the trick.
My computer is completely clean, I run more than enough virus checkers and
malware stuff so I haven't a clue why it happened.
I have no advice to offer as I don't use Agent but I wished I'd taken advice
about backing up to a CD or disc. In other words copy the stuff to a CD or
disc. It's not difficult and anyone can advise you how to do it as you say
you are not experienced on the computer.
I was too complacent and lost a lot of wonderful photos and emails. They
are still there in the crevices of my computer, but I cannot get them out..

Tweed




I'm not familiar with Agent so I can't help with Gandalf's problem, but
I might be able to help you get your emails back.

When I left my last job I wanted to take all my personal emails with me,
so I archived them as dbx files and copied them to my home computer.
Once I copied them to my computer I changed the location of the message
store of Outlook Express to the directory where I put the dbx files, and
my entire mailbox from work showed up under Local Folders.

You could try doing the same. You change the location of the message
store by going to the Tools menu and selecting Options. On the Options
dialog box click on the Maintenance tab. There is a button there called
Store Folder. You should be able to access the messages in the dbx files
by clicking the Store Folder button and changing the directory for your
message store to whatever directory your old dbx files are in.

Of course, before you try that I would first back up whatever messages
you have accumulated in the last month, because I'm not sure if you'll
have access to them once you change your store folder. You might be able
to switch between the two folders where your messages are, but I'm not
too sure about that. I have only ever used Outlook Express to access my
backed up messages from my old work mailbox - I use Thunderbird for my
personal email at home.

Hope this helps. I've lost emails that were important to me to a hard
drive crash before, so I know how you must have felt.

Nadia (and Kotyo and Sweety)

--
Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo
Sweety pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Sweety
Kotyo and Sweety together:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/KotyoAndSweety

"Christina Websell" wrote in
message ...
I can only say I know a lot about dogs, chickens and child
protection and will freely offer my knowledge to anyone who
thinks it might help....

OK, I can see why children might need protecting against dogs,
but why would they need protection against chickens? ;-)

Anyway, here's a scenario for you as regards child protection.
What would you do if you knew of a foster-parent who appears to
be drunk when they have a foster child in their care? Would you
talk to the fostering agency (local council)? Would it make a
difference if it was a one-off, or a repeated occurrence?

Thanks,

--
MatSav

"MatSav" matthew | dot | savage | at | dsl | dot | pipex | dot | com wrote
in message ...
"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
I can only say I know a lot about dogs, chickens and child protection and
will freely offer my knowledge to anyone who thinks it might help....

OK, I can see why children might need protecting against dogs, but why
would they need protection against chickens? ;-)

You'd know the answer to that one if you read a true story written by a
friend from another newsgroup. It's about a small boy (probably about two
years old) who wandered into a chicken yard wearing only an undershirt (vest
if you're English). The title of the story is "The Chicken has Found a New
Worm".

Joy

On Sat, 23 May 2009 08:33:18 +0100, "MatSav" matthew | dot | savage |
at | dsl | dot | pipex | dot | com wrote:

"Christina Websell" wrote in
message ...
I can only say I know a lot about dogs, chickens and child
protection and will freely offer my knowledge to anyone who
thinks it might help....

OK, I can see why children might need protecting against dogs,
but why would they need protection against chickens? ;-)

Anyway, here's a scenario for you as regards child protection.
What would you do if you knew of a foster-parent who appears to
be drunk when they have a foster child in their care? Would you
talk to the fostering agency (local council)? Would it make a
difference if it was a one-off, or a repeated occurrence?

Thanks,

Whisky tango foxtrot?