Email I was composing has disappeared. Can I get it back?

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just a note on good old Gmail. They currently have an auto save feature for drafts that is darn near fool proof. Even if you attempt to close move to another window in gmail, it will ask if you want to save it.

Very cool. I was unaware of that.

My problem with emails is just losing them if I have to re-install Windows. I have had Netscape/Firebird on drive d: for years but haven't figured out how to have a copy (recoverable) on d:. Something to do with "Local Folders" perhaps but it beats me every time.

I sometimes lose what I was composing and can't find it anywhere. I discovered that when I type too fast I accidentally hit the key under the shift key with my fingernail as I was capitalizing and everything disappears.

I've had a few e-mails disappear before I could finish them and hit send. The reasons varied. Some were just short replies and easily rewritten, but after it happened to a long, detailed reply I'd spent some time on, I decided that in future, when I have to write an e-mail like that which would be hard to re-create, I write them in Notepad, then paste the finished reply into an e-mail's body. That way, even if the computer crashes, I've been clicking "Save" all along while writing and have only lost a couple of sentences at most. I only do this for e-mails that would be a real pain to have to start over, but it's paid off a couple of times and I was glad I'd adopted that way of doing it.

MSN messenger seems to have disapeared from my computer. How do I access it?

I accidentally did not save my microsoft word document. Can I get it back? Please respond back!
Eileen

thats aweful, I spent over an hour on my email and on the last sentence msn timed out before i could send i didn't expect that cause i never left my computer or quit typing. Where is it? Can I get it back??? this is horrible i did nothing else but the email.

I was composing an email and I saved it several times. I got called away from my work, and when I came back I had timed out. How can I find what I had saved?
Thankou

BLOODY HECK! I was composing an email with Yahoo and stopped to consult an internet site's actual name and author which I wished to recommend to my recipient; the email disappeared. I've been mortally wounded like this before. THANKS for the reference above to G-mail and the preventions built-in [Mark,Ap.2006]. Loss of a 'composition' can be devastating!

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