What the hell is happening?

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"How can I stop this happening?"

Purchase a UPS?

Tom
"Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@virgin.net> wrote in message
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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.
|
| Why the hell did his happen?
|
| Can I recover the lost articles?
|
| How can I stop this happening?
|
| --
| Alan
|
| Reply to alan (dot) holmes27 (at) virgin (dot) net
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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

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.
--
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

Alan Holmes wrote:
> 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?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

"Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> "Tom Pepper Willett" <tompepper@mvps.invalid> wrote in message
> news:ePdvunAhFHA.328@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> "How can I stop this happening?"
>>
>> Purchase a UPS?
>
> What the hell is a UPS?

The opposite of a DOWNS :}

Actually it's an Uniterrupted Power Supply.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net




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>>
>> Tom
>> "Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@virgin.net> wrote in message
>> news:nyCze.20316$y86.16620@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
>> |
>> | 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?
>> |
>> | --
>> | Alan
>> |
>> | Reply to alan (dot) holmes27 (at) virgin (dot) net
>> |
>> |
>> |
>>
>>
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>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

> 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.

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.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:u5Kt7ABhFHA.2644@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 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.
> --
> 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
>
> Alan Holmes wrote:
>> 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?
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

But if his server is synching with the msnews server, then it may also be
dropping posts over 90 days old.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
newsiU9NhUhFHA.2572@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> But he's not using the MS server(s), so we don't know about the sever he
> is using (NTL?).
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
> Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
> http://www.fjsmjs.com
> Protect your PC
> http://www.microsoft.com./athome/s [...] fault.aspx
> http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
>
> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:u2hacAHhFHA.3608@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> "PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:u5Kt7ABhFHA.2644@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> 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.
>>> --
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Alan Holmes wrote:
>>>> 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?
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

get a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) as backup.

"Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:nyCze.20316$y86.16620@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Alan
>
> Reply to alan (dot) holmes27 (at) virgin (dot) net
>
>
>