On my old computer I had Outlook Express 4.0 and everything worked fine. My internet provider offered a free upgrade to 5.0 and when I downloaded it all hell broke lose including the loss of over half of my email most of which was for my business.
In causing the loss it was very selective as it only eliminated anything with a 2000 date. I contacted the provider and they helped me reload 4.0 and all of my 2000 email returned.
Later on, I purchased a new computer with Windows 98 ands I downloaded the hard drive from the old computer onto the new one.
When I started it up, I checked and saw that all of my year 2000 emails were gone. I checked and I was told the Outlook express 5.0 was embedded in the windows 98 program and that it was not Y2K campatible and could not be reset for Outlook express 4.0.
Now, when I need some historical documentation I have to get it from my email file on the old computer and email it to myself on the new computer.
Another major glitch I discovered is when I ran a virus scan on the new computer and it stripped out all email generated up to that time. It seems that it can't differentiate between a single message containing a virus and the entire file that contained the message. I tried to retrieve the files but they can't be repaired and as such they are lost forever.
Anybody got any suggestions.
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The Cat