<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>That's what I was going to say.</div><div><br></div><div>POP3 normally deletes once it has been downloaded, but I think it can be configured to keep messages.</div><div><br></div><div>I switched from earthlink.net to gmail.com because earthlink wouldn't do IMAP.</div><div><br></div><div>A big advantage to IMAP is the ability to read/delete/send e-mail from multiple devices, and they all sync. So, if I delete an e-mail on my iPhone, when I go to my MacBook, it has already been moved to the deleted folder.</div><div><br></div><div>Having said that, look on gmail.com for deleted messages, and if you can't find them, get gmail support involved.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, it might be possible to recover from a formatted disk. It depends on how it was formatted. It won't be easy or cheap, though.</div><div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">--</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Will</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Kirby Schrader <<a href="mailto:kirby.schrader@gmail.com">kirby.schrader@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, January 10, 2014 3:57 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Charles McCall <<a href="mailto:charlesmccall@gmail.com">charlesmccall@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Panteras <<a href="mailto:detomaso@poca.com">detomaso@poca.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - am I really Information Technologically screwed?<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Charlie,<div><br></div><div>I see you have received lots of help, so I hope you can salvage something.</div><div><br></div><div>Now then.... I only glanced through the replies, so I may be repeating something, but....</div><div><br></div><div>Gmail will let you connect via POP3 or IMAP when using an external mail client.</div><div>If you are using Outlook, you are most likely using IMAP.</div><div><br></div><div>If you delete an email from the web front end of gmail, it _should_ delete it from your Outlook, too, if they sync correctly.</div><div>It all depends on your setup.</div><div>IMAP likes synching things to be the same unless you tell it not to. At least, your Inbox, Sent, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Now then, regardless, if you conect via your gmail web client, don't you have a folder called 'All Mail'?</div><div><br></div><div>You should find everything from a very long time ago there. I have something like 22,000+ emails sitting there.</div><div>Ones I've deleted, ones I've sent, ones I've kept, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Check in there and see if gmail has kept it.</div><div>Even with all those emails I've got, I'm still only using 75% of the space they've allocated to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps.</div><div>Kirby</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Charles McCall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlesmccall@gmail.com" target="_blank">charlesmccall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0091D7" vlink="#5E6365"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">My laptop had Windows 8 installed yesterday. Before installing it, I dutifully backed up all my files, in anticipation of the reformatting. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">I have 2 e-mail accounts, my work account and the gmail account I am using to write this. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">I saved the two Outlook Data Files that were located in Microsoft/Outlook. I handed my computer over for the lobotomy. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Any suggestions? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">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!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>
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