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

[Ken Green]

I bought a copy of this to try to recover some files:

http://www.iolo.com/promo/welcome/sr/

seemed to work, but I'd guess that if new data has been stored in the same location, it can't be recovered.

My suggestion would be to clone the old hard derive before updating the operating system so you can go back temporarily if you have to.

Ken

 

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 From: Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 10:56 AM
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - am I really Information Technologically screwed?
  


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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