Just not been my day...........

When I came over from feeding some critters late tonight (actually early this morning) I found that Windows was acting strangely on my system. Wouldn't shut down so I had to pop the power button.

Seemed to start up OK, so I went about checking my email and checking on the forum sites. First odd thing I noticed is that my cookies must have gotten mangled because I had to log in on the forums, which I normally never have to do. Then a little bit later when I went back to the emails, I found it sluggish and acting weird (Outlook Express). I clicked on one of my other folders, everything looked OK..... But when I went back to the inbox, *boing*, it only showed 1 message there. Aw man........ I had at least a year's worth of messages there, some unanswered that I was planning to get back to as soon as I could. Heck, probably important stuff I don't even remember now and won't until I need them.

Aw dammit.......... After having a server problem earlier today, then this, I've about had it with computers today. Time to shut this down before I put a bullet through the screen........ :realhot: :realhot: :realhot:

Oh, thats harsh Rich, if you are going to do that (shoot your moniter) make sure you refer to the other forum to ensure you use the right weapon :twoguns: or :flames: and take lots of pictures.

On the bright side, answering e-mails sucks, so this could be like starting fresh.

God luck getting it all sorted out, and here's to nothing else going wrong today.

I feel your pain on that one. I am the queen of crashing computers in new and inventive ways without doing anything. Believe me, I know how much it sucks to lose all that email, I lost years worth...addresses, people I hadn't responded to yet, all kinds of archived information. I can only imagine how much info you lost, I hope it magically reappears somehow. :eek1:

Don't blame yourself. If it's a Bill Gates product, it's bound to go wrong!!!!!!!!
Just a thought, have you tried the system recovery? You can go back to the last known good configuration, and maybe find those e mails :shrugs:

mbdorfer said:

Don't blame yourself. If it's a Bill Gates product, it's bound to go wrong!!!!!!!!
Just a thought, have you tried the system recovery? You can go back to the last known good configuration, and maybe find those e mails :shrugs:

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Yeah, I'm sure that would be the best thing for me to do the way things are going. Bad things come in threes, so I would probably lose EVERYTHING that way.

Actually it was TWO years of emails in my inbox........ But at least I have the "sent" folder, so I have everything I have replied to.

AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Originally Posted by mbdorfer
Don't blame yourself. If it's a Bill Gates product, it's bound to go wrong!!!!!!!!

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Heh, this can't help but bring up a movie quote...

"Get Bill Gates in Myeah!"
..."You said Windows 98 would be fastah, with bretter acsress to the interrrnet!"

"It IS faster, over 5 ..."
:twoguns:

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I think the defining moment for Microsoft was when they proudly proclaimed that they had eliminated the "black screen of death". In reality they simply changed it to the "blue screen of death"...........

Rich,

Data lost is still located on your harddrive as long as you have not overwritten that area, and even then sometimes that data is recoverable.

Just try to find some forensic software. I have some here I use, when needed, for the local law enforcement when searching for evidence.

Rick

Thanks, but my suspicion is that once the "inbox" said there was only one message there, the damage was done. Yeah, I am certain there is probably a bunch of disk sectors scattered all over the hard drive that I could probably piece together with a couple of days worth of work, but I'm not going to spend that much time for it. I should have saved the inbox more often in chronologically labeled folders, but I didn't. My fault.

And now I have a perfectly legitimate excuse for those people when the complain that I didn't reply to their emails....... :sidestep:

Thanks.

Rich Z said:

I think the defining moment for Microsoft was when they proudly proclaimed that they had eliminated the "black screen of death". In reality they simply changed it to the "blue screen of death"...........

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I think my all time favorite is the message, "This system has just recovered from a fatal error"! Wonder if Bill is working on this for humans :shrugs:

One of my first exposures to Microsoft was when I bought some sort of BASIC compiler many years ago. The manual was a real hoot. There were MANY MANY commands in that manual that said that such and such an action would product "results that were unpredictable". Well hell, that's what their JOB is supposed to be. To make a programming language predictable. Needless to say, I didn't bother using that product..... I like my programs to be predictable if the coding is correct.

Outlook occasionally has a tendency to fail during synchronization. Quite likely, your files are still in tact, but not synchronized to the current application. I wouldn't count them as lost just yet.

- Liam (former MS employee)