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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0091D7" vlink="#5E6365"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hi all<o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>Any suggestions? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></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!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>