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From: MS on 2 Jul 2008 15:43 Using Outlook 2003 (all of Office 2003), all the latest updates, in Win XPSP3. I wrote a long important e-mail this morning, addressed to several people. I clicked Send, then Send and Receive, and assumed my message was sent. I received an e-mail from one of the addressees, indicating that the received e-mail was blank, no message. I went to my Sent Items folder, with the intention of forwarding that sent message to this one addressee. The message title appeared in Sent Items folder, along with the addressees. But the message was blank--nothing at all in message window-although I had written a long message. I cannot find that text I had written anywhere! What could have happened? Where could I possibly find that missing text, so I do not have to write the message again? Thank you in advance for your assistance. :-)
From: MS on 2 Jul 2008 17:26 I will add a piece of information that I forgot to mention before. It is probably not relevant to the problem, but just in case it is, I will mention it here. The original message in question was an HTML-formatted message. A long HTML-formatted message was in the message body when I clicked "Send". The message that now appears in my "Sent Items" folder has, as said, the Message Subject and the Recipients listed, but the message body is blank. Furthermore, the message body is listed as being formatted Plain Text. Therefore, somehow in the sending process, all the text in the message body was lost, and the formatting of the message was changed from HTML to Plain Text. I would still greatly appreciate help with this. Thank you. "MS" <ms(a)nospam.com> wrote in message news:u6G5rxH3IHA.3500(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Using Outlook 2003 (all of Office 2003), all the latest updates, in Win > XPSP3. > > I wrote a long important e-mail this morning, addressed to several people. > I clicked Send, then Send and Receive, and assumed my message was sent. > > I received an e-mail from one of the addressees, indicating that the > received e-mail was blank, no message. > > I went to my Sent Items folder, with the intention of forwarding that sent > message to this one addressee. > > The message title appeared in Sent Items folder, along with the > addressees. But the message was blank--nothing at all in message > window-although I had written a long message. I cannot find that text I > had written anywhere! > > What could have happened? > > Where could I possibly find that missing text, so I do not have to write > the message again? > > Thank you in advance for your assistance. :-) >
From: MS on 2 Jul 2008 19:09 I'll add something else. As that long e-mail took me hours to write, I many times clicked File, Save, to save the message. Probably as well, pretty recently before clicking the Send button, to send the message. When one saves a message, I know it is saved in the "Drafts" folder. That message is not there now, though. I guess when one clicks Send on a message, and it goes to the Outbox, it is immediately deleted from Drafts. Such messages do not appear in "Deleted Items" though. I wonder, however, if the message might somehow still be under Drafts, but hidden, and if there could be a way to revive it? I hope someone can help with this problem. Thank you. "MS" <ms(a)nospam.com> wrote in message news:ezL2grI3IHA.5024(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I will add a piece of information that I forgot to mention before. It is >probably not relevant to the problem, but just in case it is, I will >mention it here. > > The original message in question was an HTML-formatted message. A long > HTML-formatted message was in the message body when I clicked "Send". > > The message that now appears in my "Sent Items" folder has, as said, the > Message Subject and the Recipients listed, but the message body is blank. > Furthermore, the message body is listed as being formatted Plain Text. > > Therefore, somehow in the sending process, all the text in the message > body was lost, and the formatting of the message was changed from HTML to > Plain Text. > > I would still greatly appreciate help with this. Thank you. > > "MS" <ms(a)nospam.com> wrote in message > news:u6G5rxH3IHA.3500(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Using Outlook 2003 (all of Office 2003), all the latest updates, in Win >> XPSP3. >> >> I wrote a long important e-mail this morning, addressed to several >> people. I clicked Send, then Send and Receive, and assumed my message was >> sent. >> >> I received an e-mail from one of the addressees, indicating that the >> received e-mail was blank, no message. >> >> I went to my Sent Items folder, with the intention of forwarding that >> sent message to this one addressee. >> >> The message title appeared in Sent Items folder, along with the >> addressees. But the message was blank--nothing at all in message >> window-although I had written a long message. I cannot find that text I >> had written anywhere! >> >> What could have happened? >> >> Where could I possibly find that missing text, so I do not have to write >> the message again? >> >> Thank you in advance for your assistance. :-) >> > >
From: Pat Willener on 2 Jul 2008 22:51 First of all, since it took you so long to write that message, I assume that it should be quite large. What is the size of the message in the Sent Items folder? If it is not just 1KB or 2KB like an empty message, then we must assume that the text is still there, but has somehow become invisible. If that is the case, open the message, right-click on the message body and select View Source. Do you see now your original text (interspersed with HTML tags)? MS wrote: > I'll add something else. > > As that long e-mail took me hours to write, I many times clicked File, Save, > to save the message. Probably as well, pretty recently before clicking the > Send button, to send the message. > > When one saves a message, I know it is saved in the "Drafts" folder. That > message is not there now, though. I guess when one clicks Send on a message, > and it goes to the Outbox, it is immediately deleted from Drafts. Such > messages do not appear in "Deleted Items" though. > > I wonder, however, if the message might somehow still be under Drafts, but > hidden, and if there could be a way to revive it? > > I hope someone can help with this problem. Thank you. > > > "MS" <ms(a)nospam.com> wrote in message > news:ezL2grI3IHA.5024(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> I will add a piece of information that I forgot to mention before. It is >> probably not relevant to the problem, but just in case it is, I will >> mention it here. >> >> The original message in question was an HTML-formatted message. A long >> HTML-formatted message was in the message body when I clicked "Send". >> >> The message that now appears in my "Sent Items" folder has, as said, the >> Message Subject and the Recipients listed, but the message body is blank. >> Furthermore, the message body is listed as being formatted Plain Text. >> >> Therefore, somehow in the sending process, all the text in the message >> body was lost, and the formatting of the message was changed from HTML to >> Plain Text. >> >> I would still greatly appreciate help with this. Thank you. >> >> "MS" <ms(a)nospam.com> wrote in message >> news:u6G5rxH3IHA.3500(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> Using Outlook 2003 (all of Office 2003), all the latest updates, in Win >>> XPSP3. >>> >>> I wrote a long important e-mail this morning, addressed to several >>> people. I clicked Send, then Send and Receive, and assumed my message was >>> sent. >>> >>> I received an e-mail from one of the addressees, indicating that the >>> received e-mail was blank, no message. >>> >>> I went to my Sent Items folder, with the intention of forwarding that >>> sent message to this one addressee. >>> >>> The message title appeared in Sent Items folder, along with the >>> addressees. But the message was blank--nothing at all in message >>> window-although I had written a long message. I cannot find that text I >>> had written anywhere! >>> >>> What could have happened? >>> >>> Where could I possibly find that missing text, so I do not have to write >>> the message again? >>> >>> Thank you in advance for your assistance. :-)
From: MS on 2 Jul 2008 23:17 Thanks for the suggestion, Pat. I already tried that, "View Source". All that I see are a couple HTML tags, no text. Any other ideas? What happens to a message that has been saved, that is in the Drafts folder, when one clicks Send (putting it in the Outbox)? One doesn't see it listed any more under Drafts, but is the saved version there somewhere? As data is changed in a .pst file, what happens to the previous version of that file? It sure would be nice if Outlook saved a .bak copy of the .pst every ten minutes or so, so if something like this happened, one would have a backup copy, still with the data. (I know there are backup programs for Outlook, but they can only work when Outlook is not running, a very different situation. I tried Scanpst, Office Repair, and a few other things. Yes, writing that e-mail took hours, but now I have spent more hours trying to recover the text, more time than what it would have taken me to re-write it. I guess it's the computer geek in me that wants to find a solution--that thinks "that message must be somewhere". Of course, I never thought it would take this long. I always think I'll solve it in the next few minutes. Anyhow, I would still appreciate more suggestions. Thank you. "Pat Willener" <nobody(a)devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message news:eb5hjeL3IHA.1428(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > First of all, since it took you so long to write that message, I assume > that it should be quite large. What is the size of the message in the Sent > Items folder? If it is not just 1KB or 2KB like an empty message, then we > must assume that the text is still there, but has somehow become > invisible. > > If that is the case, open the message, right-click on the message body and > select View Source. Do you see now your original text (interspersed with > HTML tags)? > > MS wrote: >> I'll add something else. >> >> As that long e-mail took me hours to write, I many times clicked File, >> Save, to save the message. Probably as well, pretty recently before >> clicking the Send button, to send the message. >> >> When one saves a message, I know it is saved in the "Drafts" folder. That >> message is not there now, though. I guess when one clicks Send on a >> message, and it goes to the Outbox, it is immediately deleted from >> Drafts. Such messages do not appear in "Deleted Items" though. >> >> I wonder, however, if the message might somehow still be under Drafts, >> but hidden, and if there could be a way to revive it? >> >> I hope someone can help with this problem. Thank you. >> >> >> "MS" <ms(a)nospam.com> wrote in message >> news:ezL2grI3IHA.5024(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >>> I will add a piece of information that I forgot to mention before. It is >>> probably not relevant to the problem, but just in case it is, I will >>> mention it here. >>> >>> The original message in question was an HTML-formatted message. A long >>> HTML-formatted message was in the message body when I clicked "Send". >>> >>> The message that now appears in my "Sent Items" folder has, as said, the >>> Message Subject and the Recipients listed, but the message body is >>> blank. Furthermore, the message body is listed as being formatted Plain >>> Text. >>> >>> Therefore, somehow in the sending process, all the text in the message >>> body was lost, and the formatting of the message was changed from HTML >>> to Plain Text. >>> >>> I would still greatly appreciate help with this. Thank you. >>> >>> "MS" <ms(a)nospam.com> wrote in message >>> news:u6G5rxH3IHA.3500(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>> Using Outlook 2003 (all of Office 2003), all the latest updates, in Win >>>> XPSP3. >>>> >>>> I wrote a long important e-mail this morning, addressed to several >>>> people. I clicked Send, then Send and Receive, and assumed my message >>>> was sent. >>>> >>>> I received an e-mail from one of the addressees, indicating that the >>>> received e-mail was blank, no message. >>>> >>>> I went to my Sent Items folder, with the intention of forwarding that >>>> sent message to this one addressee. >>>> >>>> The message title appeared in Sent Items folder, along with the >>>> addressees. But the message was blank--nothing at all in message >>>> window-although I had written a long message. I cannot find that text I >>>> had written anywhere! >>>> >>>> What could have happened? >>>> >>>> Where could I possibly find that missing text, so I do not have to >>>> write the message again? >>>> >>>> Thank you in advance for your assistance. :-)
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