lost Outlook Express email message when computer crashed

jasongottlieb · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

I was in the process of typing a very long email message on Outlook
Express when my computer crashed and I had to force a reboot. Outlook
Express did not save the message in my Drafts or Deleted folders. Is
there anyway to recover this message?

Thank you.

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jasongottlieb · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

On Aug 27, 1:11 pm, jasongottl...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I was in the process of typing a very long email message on Outlook
> Express when my computer crashed and I had to force a reboot. Outlook
> Express did not save the message in my Drafts or Deleted folders. Is
> there anyway to recover this message?
>
> Thank you.

I should mention that I am on OE ver 6 and using Windows XP

PA Bear · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 123

jasongottlieb@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 27, 1:11 pm, jasongottl...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> I was in the process of typing a very long email message on Outlook
>> Express when my computer crashed and I had to force a reboot. Outlook
>> Express did not save the message in my Drafts or Deleted folders. Is
>> there anyway to recover this message?

No.

> I should mention that I am on OE ver 6 and using Windows XP

This is an OE5.0-specific newsgroup.

OE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
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Michael Santovec · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 182

You are out of luck.

The message you were composing was only in RAM and got wiped when the PC
crashed.

To protect yourself in the future when composing a long message, you
must manually save it periodically to the DRAFTS by doing a File, Save
(Ctrl+S) or to an EML file by doing File, Save As.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

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>I was in the process of typing a very long email message on Outlook
> Express when my computer crashed and I had to force a reboot. Outlook
> Express did not save the message in my Drafts or Deleted folders. Is
> there anyway to recover this message?
>
> Thank you.
>

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