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Comment from Roger PB on 2011-12-13

2011-12-13T18:00:19Z

I have on numerous occasions found that emails I was in the middle of drafting simply disappeared. I found the safest solution was to draft them in Word or another text editor, save it, and cut and paste the text to Outlook. That does not say much for the bomb-proof quality of Outlook, does it?

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Comment from littleray on 2011-11-12

2011-11-12T12:30:25Z

It happened to me multiple times that my drafts would suddenly be highlighted and in a flash disappear. I know the panic.
Then a friend showed me how to retrieve the draft.
Answer: Ctrl Z. Hit at the "same" time. If you hit one first, even if you hold it down while you hit the other, it won't work.

Try it. It works.
littleray

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Comment from sreek on 2011-05-24

2011-05-24T07:17:55Z

hi,

i have draft some mail, and final i have click on send , its came web page unable to connect. but it dint save even in drafts. how could i retrieve the data. because i spend 1 hr to draft.
it happens in a weak 2 times.
please possible provide me an option.

regards
rajeswari.s

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Comment from khaled on 2011-01-24

2011-01-24T17:00:54Z

I lost my email address {removed by moderator}@hotmail.com, kindly if I can get it back, cause I had all my emails and contact on it and now i lose them all
thank you

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25-Jan-2011

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Comment from Connie on 2010-09-19

2010-09-20T05:23:03Z

I don't know what email service you are using, but this has happened to me MANY times with my Outlook Express. All I do to get my message back, is hit Ctrl Z .....and voila!
Maybe this will help YOU, too. Good luck.

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Comment from mary beech on 2010-06-28

2010-06-28T15:31:05Z

My text in yahoo email,facebook etc.. disappears when I press the capitol "m",The lower case"m"ends up in a different part of the text than I intended . I have a Toshiba laptop with windows vista.I've only had this laptop less than a year.. Anyone with suggestions?

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Comment from louielou on 2010-06-23

2010-06-23T20:19:28Z

This is very aggravating. I am using Comcast email, XP-SP3.Accessing comcast from a remote site. I stated a new Compose, the contents of which took a lot of thought. Now I have to start all over. This has been happening more often lately.

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Comment from barbara on 2010-03-07

2010-03-07T20:25:26Z

This disappearing email as I compose it is becoming a big problem now for me in outlook express. It use to happen periodically. Now the cursor jumps at random into another part of the email continually and emails under composition totally disappear. I have figured out that if I open a 'create' new email to compose rather than a 'reply' to compose & DON'T put the address or subject on until just before I send, it seems to NOT disappear. Also sometimes I highlight the whole email and hit copy just to be sure I don't loose it.
What a mess.

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Comment from pansy on 2010-01-10

2010-01-10T23:39:38Z

I was just typing and my mail was gone, it was a reply.

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Comment from suzanne on 2009-06-25

2009-06-25T13:09:54Z

this happens to me ALL the time - typing a lengthy email and then, poof, its gone - no way to get it back. It started when I got this Dell Laptop and Windows Vista. Never occurred on my desktop. I must be hitting a key accidentally but I can't figure it out.

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Comment from William Roberts on 2009-05-06

2009-05-06T12:17:47Z

Hi can you help.We saved an email'Hotmail' to the save draft folder and retrieved it later to add more text, we then clicked on the save draft again but all the extra text dissapeared, what can we do to get it back and was it because our email was to long. we have checked in the commputer bin etc but cannot find the rest of the email anywhere. I am 75 so simple instructions would be much appreciated...Our security system is firfox and are computer is Vista...Thankyou...Scouser...

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Comment from Christine Cason on 2009-04-02

2009-04-02T15:07:09Z

Why didn't my letter get saved as a draft like usual. Not only did it not save but 10 other drafts just disappeared. Can I get them back and why is this happening?

Not enough information to go on. You didn't even tell me what email program you're using, any error messages, or the specific steps of what you were doing at the time.

- Leo
03-Apr-2009

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Comment from Barry on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T20:54:03Z

I, too, have suffered by having a lengthy email accidentally disappear just as I was finishing it. Now, if I know it's a long one, I compose in Word and then copy and paste it into my Hotmail email. I've never figured out which key is the culprit, but it's one at the bottom of the keyboard and if I just brush it, everything is gone. Aaaaarrgh!!!! So save, save, save......

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Comment from Paul on 2008-10-06

2008-10-06T20:05:04Z

I was composing a reply and it disappeared.

I recomposed it and click to save it to drafts and then I couldnt find the drafts folder on MSN

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Comment from J E Pettitt on 2008-08-14

2008-08-14T09:10:37Z

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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Comment from Mary on 2008-07-22

2008-07-23T03:41:44Z

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

That depends entirely on what email program you use. Most place auto-saved messages into a "Draft" folder.

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Comment from kristie on 2008-05-08

2008-05-08T19:54:08Z

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.

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Comment from Eileen on 2006-12-06

2006-12-07T05:16:11Z

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

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Comment from jackie on 2006-07-30

2006-07-30T08:52:22Z

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

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Comment from Jeff Rankin-Lowe on 2006-04-22

2006-04-22T21:58:45Z

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.

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Comment from Viola on 2006-04-22

2006-04-22T21:35:55Z

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.

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Comment from Ross Giddings on 2006-04-21

2006-04-22T01:35:07Z

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.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-04-21

2006-04-22T01:09:08Z

Very cool. I was unaware of that.

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Comment from Mark on 2006-04-21

2006-04-22T00:56:14Z

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.

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