I just had a C drive start acting up and decided to install a new drive. Because the drive was only 10gig I had previously pointed my email storage location to a secondary folder called "Outlook Exp".
Installed the new harddrive and Office XP Pro which included OE 6. The location of the email files was naturally pointed by the install to the profile locaiton on the new C drive. No email received. Old stuff savely stored on the F drive.(this included extra folders for business etc.) Opened OE and repointed to the F:Outlook Express location for the storage of my email files. Assuming that like any responsible programmer or software developer I would get a Warning Message that I was about to overwrite existing files I felt very comfortable about doing this. Just great. What OE did was MOVE the files from the C drive profile location to the F:Outlook Express folder and completely deleted all files previously stored there. No warnings. No smiley faces. No nothing. This included additional folders(.dbx files) that I had setup for storing emails speperately to catagorize them.
This does not follow the typical MS programming processes of warnings and notifications when their software is going to overwrite files.
I am asking you TT experts if there is any hope of recovery of these files. I know the answer before I send posting off but I thought I would give it a try.
Bob Scriver
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Author, Bagdad Bob???
Installed the new harddrive and Office XP Pro which included OE 6. The location of the email files was naturally pointed by the install to the profile locaiton on the new C drive. No email received. Old stuff savely stored on the F drive.(this included extra folders for business etc.) Opened OE and repointed to the F:Outlook Express location for the storage of my email files. Assuming that like any responsible programmer or software developer I would get a Warning Message that I was about to overwrite existing files I felt very comfortable about doing this. Just great. What OE did was MOVE the files from the C drive profile location to the F:Outlook Express folder and completely deleted all files previously stored there. No warnings. No smiley faces. No nothing. This included additional folders(.dbx files) that I had setup for storing emails speperately to catagorize them.
This does not follow the typical MS programming processes of warnings and notifications when their software is going to overwrite files.
I am asking you TT experts if there is any hope of recovery of these files. I know the answer before I send posting off but I thought I would give it a try.
Bob Scriver
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Author, Bagdad Bob???