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 imabrit
  		posted on November 8, 2000 01:51:10 PM new
I think I should have stayed in bed today.

I had Ebud up and running and was getting ready to send a Billpoint invoice,my system crashed and when I rebooted.

Every single email in my in box got deleted all 17000 of them.I used it as a database and its gone.

Odd thing is that the out box and items I have saved in specific files are still there but the rest are gone.

Mc Cafee detects nothing.

Oh well an interesting way to clear out the clutter I guess but not recommended.

I still cannot access AW in the message center on my comp and I cannot even access AW period right know.

Has anyone had this happen to them or are there new viruses out there.My McCafee update is about a week old so I think its current.

Nice day here though in Florida.

Adrian

 
 reddeer
  		posted on November 8, 2000 01:56:31 PM new
I have a friend who had the same thing happen just 2 days ago. She said it made it past McCafee & Nortons. Her entire email was gone when she booted up in the AM.



 
 hardoutfit
  		posted on November 8, 2000 02:09:25 PM new
Rule 1: Back up important files
Rule 2: Back up important files
Rule 3: Refer to rules 1&2

 
 Muriel
  		posted on November 8, 2000 02:38:43 PM new
I had the same thing happen!! What's up with that? I'd better go run McAfee and see. Geez, and I thought I did something stupid.

 
 sg52
  		posted on November 8, 2000 02:45:03 PM new
I used it as a database and its gone.

Some softwares invite being used as a database, but they're traps.

sg52

 
 bhearsch
  		posted on November 8, 2000 02:46:14 PM new
Hi Adrian. Did you check your *.dbx* files to see if the emails are still there?

Blanche
 
 macandjan
  		posted on November 8, 2000 03:15:36 PM new
And when you back it up adrian, back it up off site so even if the house burns down you have it. I have a lot of stuff at xdrive.

 
 mballai
  		posted on November 8, 2000 04:39:16 PM new
I store all my auction goodies on an Access database. I now zip it up regularly. A friend of mine recommends using CD-RW because it is portable.

 
 eventer
  		posted on November 8, 2000 04:46:22 PM new
Adrian,

If it's VERY important, there are people who specialize in restoring things most of us can't get back w/the usual software solutions. They are expensive, but they are pretty good. Have you considered taking it to a local computer shop & seeing what they say?

 
 viaastra
  		posted on November 8, 2000 05:17:43 PM new
You can use ontrack, I had them recover material off hard drives that were recovered from a building that burned down- if you saw the hard drives you would have said "no way" - lost virtually nothing.

http://www.ontrack.com
Rick
http://www.viastra-enterprises.com

 
 gypsyfangs
  		posted on November 9, 2000 09:23:43 AM new
This just happened to me as well two days ago. I thought it was just something I had done!


- Shari

"For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the Protected will never know."
 
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