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Lost My Email History

Jul 3, 2014 9:11AM PDT

Just rebooted and when my 7 Ultimate came up I noticed that the last 6 months of email history was gone

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Sadly
Jul 3, 2014 11:13AM PDT

This is where folk learn what they must backup. Keep in mind that email is usually done with some app. I can't guess which app you used or what your backup restore plan looks like from the detail in your post so far.

So, in short, restore this from your last backup.
Bob

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Recovering EMail History
Jul 3, 2014 12:34PM PDT

Your suggestion is very helpful and easy to do. Thanks

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If it was thunderbird
Jul 4, 2014 4:32AM PDT

the files might still be there. If however this is the INBOX and some messages are there and others aren't you have a problem. If it happened once, it can and probably will happen again, so find out why. Run chkdsk on the drive. Check to see you aren't running out of drive space.

What I do is empty my Inbox into a dated folder name (like Inbox-jan-apr-2014) every few months. Some mail programs in past would mess up when the Inbox exceeded certain size, and archiving into multiple folders small enough that wasn't a problem saved people from the big mail loss.