Lost Email

I lost my email... it's gone. Not the address itself of course... but everything with it. My address book... my sent messages, inbox, trash, subfolders of saved messages... gone. How does this happen? Well, seems that when you update from Netscape 7.0 to 7.1 the computer thinks it knows what is best for you. Well, all it did was successfully delete every email I have gotten in the last 8 months. And the last time I backed up my stuff I forgot to back up my inbox. In a last resort effort I tried a system restore... but that only restores the settings... not lost files. I usually remember to save the files that go with my user profile when I update Netscape but I didn't this time... it really sucks to loose that much email.

Really the whole point of this post is... if you have sent me an email in the last month or so... I was planning on replying to you soon... now I can't.

I suppose the worst of it is the pictures that I hadn't gotten around to saving yet, the cool links that people have sent me, the messages that I had saved in subfolders for some reason or another, the messages that I was planning on replying to and hadn't yet, the email addresses that I had put in my address book (luckily i have a back up of those), and some of which... that I've gotten in the last week or so... that I hadn't even gotten around to reading yet. What a bummer...

So... friendly reminder to the few people out there that actually download there messages to their computer and don't use web based mail or AOL... back up your inbox. Do it for yourself so when things go bad... and they will... you won't have to suffer to much.

I have been sending and recieving email for 7 years... only one other time have I lost all my email and that was over 5 years ago... I had forgotten how much it sucked.

Some of you may be wondering why I use Netscape in the first place. Well, for one, it is less susceptible to virus attack since most viruses use features of Microsoft to exploit users. I also use Netscape because that is what I have been using since the first time I checked my email. I don't browse with Netscape anymore because Microsoft successfully made explorer the only browser that would work for certain things... which is a crock... but it is the truth. I also use Netscape because I like some of its features over Microsoft. The one I really don't like that is tempting me to stop using it is how dumb it is when it goes to update.

Anyway... sorry if you have sent me an email lately and I haven't gotten back to you... I really had planned to. Please if you have sent me and email lately go through your sent box, find it and send it again if you really want me to read it and reply.

- footprints of Chad, 4:04 PM

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