The Outlook Express Crisis

Yeah... it happened 3 days ago.. it was not only devastating but also an exhausting experience.

Just tried to enable some mail rules, and suddenly it strokes... (and left me striken as well..) the usual message:

"OE encountered blah blah... and has to close... blah blah.. send report.. blah blah..."

I didn't realise at first what has happened until I tried to used it again. Guess what, all my subfolders, more than 60% of the company's correspondance has vanished. Trying to keep myself calm started to look for the missing files. Managed to trace them into the Recyle Bin (!)..

Having almost none previous knowledge in OE, I began looking up and through the net for assistance. After seeking and speaking on the phone with people having veteral status in experiences like mine I managed to recover some of the lost files.

Current situation: OE is behaving strangely and is beyond any repair.. Some of the files were indeed lost for ever and guess what - THE MOST IMPORTANT ONES

Anyway, everybody here is going to revert to Microsoft Outlook (that of the MS Office) and start to make backups of his/her files.

Tyring, time-consuming, irritating, shitting experience...

Weekend ahead, no bother... "Mare shitted on the threshing floor"...