OH's very old Lenovo died yesterday. Basically WIN7 would no longer function - could not get into safe mode etc. Just could not get the OS to kick in.
Tried all the usual but appeared to be terminal problem with WIN.
Hence did a restore from a recovery disc.
Much of her files were backed up to last November. Anyway my reading was that whilst all programmes would be wiped out, documents would end up on a separate partition and this indeed turned out to be the case. The post November files have been easily transferred to another computer.
What I am not sure is where the emails are - assuming they are there somewhere, Programme was Windows Live Mail.
Any thoughts would be kindly received.
T7
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Where are the emails?
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Re: Where are the emails?
am sure someone with operational tech brains will be along soon...but being 'live.co' which is hotmail...presumably you can access from another computer?...i mean, I can get mine when abroad and using cafe wifi...?
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Re: Where are the emails?
terminal7 wrote:OH's very old Lenovo died yesterday. Basically WIN7 would no longer function - could not get into safe mode etc. Just could not get the OS to kick in.
Tried all the usual but appeared to be terminal problem with WIN.
Hence did a restore from a recovery disc.
Much of her files were backed up to last November. Anyway my reading was that whilst all programmes would be wiped out, documents would end up on a separate partition and this indeed turned out to be the case. The post November files have been easily transferred to another computer.
What I am not sure is where the emails are - assuming they are there somewhere, Programme was Windows Live Mail.
Any thoughts would be kindly received.
T7
If you used POP3 then the default location is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail>, where <username> is your log on user name.
So if the recovery tried to save data to a new partition rather than overwrite, then the emails should be there as .eml files.
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