[DeTomaso] NPC - am I really Information Technologically screwed?

[Charles McCall]

Hi all

My laptop had Windows 8 installed yesterday. Before installing it, I
dutifully backed up all my files, in anticipation of the reformatting. 

 

I have 2 e-mail accounts, my work account and the gmail account I am using
to write this. 

 

I saved the two Outlook Data Files that were located in Microsoft/Outlook. I
handed my computer over for the lobotomy. 

 

I got it back and restored my outlook files, but found that the most recent
e-mail in my gmail account was from July, 2011. 

 

Long story, but I now see that the Outlook Data File from my gmail account
has "date last modified" of July 2011. This must mean that at some point,
Outlook began storing e-mails elsewhere, but I don't know where, and at this
point I suppose it doesn't really matter. 

 

When you link your Gmail account to Outlook, when you send/receive and the
e-mail is downloaded to Outlook, it disappears from the web-application of
Gmail. It appears on the cloud until you connect, at which point it gets
presumably erased. 

 

I've apparently lost 100% of my e-mails. All the planning for Le Mans
Classic, confirmations of payment, confirmation of schedules. We're trying
to sell some property on the Mediterranean and we have agreed to meet people
there in 2 weeks and again other in 4 weeks. Their data is all in Outlook. I
use it to store a lot of data, and I'm really kind of screwed if I can't get
it back. 

 

Any suggestions? 

 

If you are going on the LMC trip, I have your e-mail addresses and payment
info in the famous Excel sheet, but not a single e-mail else. Thanks!

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