What the hell is happening?

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Alan Holmes

I had a sudden cut of power, when the computer came back on and I tried
to download the latest headers, the damned thing decided to discard
all articles before march this year, so I've lost a large number of kept
articles going back about a year.

Why the hell did his happen?

Can I recover the lost articles?

How can I stop this happening?
 
"How can I stop this happening?"

Purchase a UPS?

Tom
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| I had a sudden cut of power, when the computer came back on and I tried
| to download the latest headers, the damned thing decided to discard
| all articles before march this year, so I've lost a large number of kept
| articles going back about a year.
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| Why the hell did his happen?
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| Can I recover the lost articles?
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| How can I stop this happening?
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| Alan
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Alan Holmes said:
I had a sudden cut of power, when the computer came back on and
I
tried to download the latest headers, the damned thing decided
to
discard all articles before march this year, so I've lost a
large number of
kept articles going back about a year.

Why the hell did his happen?

Can I recover the lost articles?
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Are you talking about newsgroup articles?


Unsubscribe and resubscribe to the newsgroups in question. You'll
get all the messages on the server.


Why are you saving messages this long? In general there's no need
to. They are archived on googlegroups,
http://groups-beta.google.com/, and you can always search there
for anything you want to find.

How can I stop this happening?
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Buy a UPS.
 
Are you referring to newsgroup messages already downloaded into OE or
newsgroup messages you'd Copied to a local OE folder?

Assuming the former, right-click on the newsgroup in Folders pane >
Properties > Local file > Reset. When you next poll the newsgroup for
messages, all messages currently residing on the newsserver you use (it's
not the MS newsserver) will be downloaded again.

Different newsservers have different retention policies. Some keep messages
available for only a short period of time (e.g., 24 hours, 7 days). The MS
newsserver (news://msnews.microsoft.com) keeps them available for 90+ days
as a rule.
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OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
OE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP

Inside Outlook Express
http://www.insideoe.com
 
Uninteruptable Power Supply. IE a big battery that runs the computer for long enough for it to shutdown normally.
 
Different newsservers have different retention policies. Some keep
messages available for only a short period of time (e.g., 24 hours, 7
days). The MS newsserver (news://msnews.microsoft.com) keeps them
available for 90+ days as a rule.
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Which is why he probably lost older ones. He's got all new mail/news stores,
the old ones were likely corrupted by the loss of power, especially if OE
was open at the time it occured.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
But if his server is synching with the msnews server, then it may also be
dropping posts over 90 days old.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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