Subject: Re: Undelete???

From: Harry Slaughter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:25:55 -0700

On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Colleen Bridge wrote:

> 
> Is it possible to undelete files in pine?? I deleted all of my files by 
> mistake (long story) and want them back, some are very important to me 
> (longer story)  :)
> 
> Any help is appreciated!
> Colleen 'the bee'

Contact your ISP. You can usually get a copy of any deleted files from
their backups if you're quick about it (within 24-48 hours). Aside from
that, Unix isn't very forgiving with deletes. 

Good Luck

Harry

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:24:38 -0400

> mistake (long story) and want them back, some are very important to me 

    I would say that you are probably out of luck, although there may
be faint hope.  What system are you running Pine under?  If it is
PC-Pine under MS-DOS, I presume that Pine is using the normal DOS file
structures.  IF YOU ARE QUICK ENOUGH (!), there are MS-DOS utilities
which may be able to recover your files -- maybe.  If you are running
Pine under some flavor of Unix, about all you can do is try to sweet
talk your system administrator to try to restore your files from the
most recent backup tapes -- presuming, of course, that backup tapes
were even made relatively recently, which is frequently not the case. 
Even if tapes were made, you will probably still lose something.  As
for Pine running on other systems, I cannot speak.  Unfortunately,
overall I would not be optimistic about your prospects.  Sorry.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: Colleen Bridge <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:02:42 -0230

Any help is appreciated!
Colleen 'the bee'
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