Subject: Sug (ID Y777J): (fwd)

From: Ann Huynh Tran <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:26:42 -0800 (PST)

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:19:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Ann Huynh Tran <[email-masked]>
To: Pine Developers <[email-masked]>
Subject: Sug (ID Y777J): 

Hi, please help me retrieve my old messages. I was asked if I wanted to
empty out my folder and start from January to save space. I did so without
thinking that it would delete all my old messages. How do I get them all
back???

Please Help!!!

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 09 Jan 1998 07:24:27 +0100

>>>On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:26:42 -0800 (PST), Ann Huynh Tran <[email-masked]> said:

 AHT> Hi, please help me retrieve my old messages. I was asked if I
 AHT> wanted to empty out my folder and start from January to save
 AHT> space. I did so without thinking that it would delete all my old
 AHT> messages. How do I get them all back???

Hi,

your message-id is something like 'Pine.SOL.3.95...'. Therefore, I
guess that you are on a unix machine.

If this holds true, you must ask your local sys admin whether she's
got any backup tapes of your folder collection directory ($HOME/mail
or whatever you've put into your .pinerc), because delete in the unix
world doesn't provide any means to retrieve old files by guessing
strange leading characters.

On Windows systems it should be possible to get them back using
undelete, but I'm absolutely the wrong person to answer this :-)

Hmm ... Ed, is this statement correct? To all the others ... is this
statement *not* offending?

l8er, norbert.

-- 
Norbert Koch
a rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing!

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From: Noone Special <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:38:33 -0500 (EST)

> undelete, but I'm absolutely the wrong person to answer this :-)

Well.. unless she's running WinBlows 95 (no undelete unless you can find
one on the net somewhere.. if you do, lemme know ;)
95 has the recycle bin, but that is Windows specific.  If you delete a
file any other way than "moving it to the recycle bin".. it's GONE

Pat