ALL My emails/contacts are gone

I opened my Entourage X yesterday morning and there were NO emails
there and there were MANY with many folders that filed older emails the
night before. I have looked and cannot find any trace of any of my old
settings. I tried to "rebuild", however since there is nothing there,
there is nothing to rebuild.

It seems like everything was just erased. I can usually figure these
things out and I'm baffled. There is only one thing I can figure that
did it.

I was "organizing" folders on my computer and I moved a folder entitled
"microsoft user data" because it was in my documents folder and I
didn't want it there. Could that be it?? Thanks for your help... I
will NEVER "organize" files on my computer again... I swear!
Eileen

Karl
Tue Jul 26 17:27:48 CDT 2005

funteach35@comcast.net wrote:
> I opened my Entourage X yesterday morning and there were NO emails
> there and there were MANY with many folders that filed older emails the
> night before. I have looked and cannot find any trace of any of my old
> settings. I tried to "rebuild", however since there is nothing there,
> there is nothing to rebuild.
>
> It seems like everything was just erased. I can usually figure these
> things out and I'm baffled. There is only one thing I can figure that
> did it.
>
> I was "organizing" folders on my computer and I moved a folder entitled
> "microsoft user data" because it was in my documents folder and I
> didn't want it there. Could that be it?? Thanks for your help... I
> will NEVER "organize" files on my computer again... I swear!
> Eileen
>

You might want to put that folder back because it does indeed contain
all your e-mail.

funteach
Tue Jul 26 18:47:48 CDT 2005

well, I tried that and I think it created another folder just like it
in it's place, so when I went to replace that folder with the one I
moved BOTH had been changed to hold none of my old emails.

UGH

funteach
Tue Jul 26 18:55:49 CDT 2005

Well, I tried moving the folder back, even though it looked like my
emails and all 3 "identities" were gone and it worked!!!

Thank you Karl Ryan! you made my day!
Eileen

Karl
Wed Jul 27 16:32:43 CDT 2005

funteach wrote:

> Well, I tried moving the folder back, even though it looked like my
> emails and all 3 "identities" were gone and it worked!!!
>
> Thank you Karl Ryan! you made my day!
> Eileen
>

You're welcome and I'm pleased you've got your e-mail back. I know what
it's like to lose all your e-mail through mistakes involving the delete
key which is why I now use IMAP e-mail servers. :-)