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Windows Vista File Management Issues or questions in relation to Vista's file management. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management) |
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Folder recovery problems
Today, I tried to recover a Windows Mail folder
containing at least one message that I lost months ago. Ran into assorted problems: 1. The backup and restore center makes it rather difficult to recover anything so old that the backups catalog has been corrupted and erased a few times since that item was stored a backup. I finally got around this by telling it I needed to restore something put into a backup for another computer, instead of the same computer where I was trying to restore it. 2. The recovered files needed to go into a different folder from the original location, since part of that folder was recovered before. The instructions were rather late in saying that this was even possible, after I had moved everything in the original location elsewhere. 3. The .eml file containing the lost message was completely missing except for the .fol file containing a pointer to it; I couldn't find any way to open the .fol file to find the correct ..eml file name. 4. At least the folder containing it was identifiable, and contained only 4 .eml files, so I restored those 4 files. Now, how do I make Windows Mail recognize those 4 files enough to move them into a storage folder with the proper indexing? 5. SOMETHING is using a large percentage of the physical memory in some way that keeps Windows Task Manager from reporting what images are using it; it's only reporting that 73% of the physical memory is in use, but none is free, a combination that I often see when the machine is responding much more slowly than usual. I'm not sure what's running, but apparantly nothing I started. 6. Searching through the directory structure to find the recovered files and clicking on them made it open one of them, but not one that's still useful. Trying it again with the other three opens Windows Mail, but not the selected message. Running Norton Internet Security 2010, with its most recent updates, on that machine doesn't find any malware likely to be causing the problem. Before you ask, I've already tried installing Windows Live Mail (2009 version) on my other two machines and found it essentially useless as a newsreader, due to lacking any visible way to reach a section for controlling news post filtering. I've found a rumor elsewhere that selecting Tools is the first step to reaching it, but nothing labelled Tools is visible under Windows Live Mail on either machine, and there's nothing relevant as a help file. After seeing that, I see no use in installing Windows Live Mail or anything else under Windows Live Essentials on the machine with the problem. 32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 2 GB physical memory runs BOINC 6.10.18 and an assortment of BOINC projects most of the time Robert Miles |