Comments on: Online Business Tragedy: The Loss of My Email, Address Book & Calendar

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:26:11 +0000

Josh, not difficult at all. In Mozilla Thunderbird and MS Outlook it just takes a couple of mouse clicks when you add your email account into the program.

By: terra

terra — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:49:32 +0000

I definitely feel your pain. ouch.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:54:31 +0000

Hey all . . . thanks for the tips. I’ve been running POP3. How difficult is it to switch to IMAP? Any suggestions?

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:47:43 +0000

Hey Josh,

Were you running IMAP or POP3 on your server?

If POP3 – that is the reason those emails are gone. IMAP should keep them saved on the server, but if you pull them into your email browser of choice via POP3 they are removed from the server.

By: James Klobasa

James Klobasa — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:27:47 +0000

Hey Josh,
Same thing just cost me $1400 to recover the data. I know that
sinking feeling…
Moving along…how’s life…?

JamesRREI

By: Steve's Tech Blog

Steve's Tech Blog — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:48:50 +0000

http://www.weirdkid.com/

I never used them but they may do what you want and convert them to Thunderbird instead.

I used Google to find possible solutions
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=bI9&q=Entourage+email++convert+thunderbird&btnG=Search

You have the files and could see a cheap solution for you

Backup is the weakness point for many of us(me including).

I tell my clients: If you lose your data, would you nibble your fingers?(simple French translation)

By: reinkefj

reinkefj — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:40:17 +0000

ONTRACK a data recovery firm saved my butt once. And, several people I know have used them. Not cheap, but the alternatives can be more expensive. After you’re back, I’d push everything thru gmail and use Plaxo for the contacts. imho, fjohn

By: Roger Anderson

Roger Anderson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:29:56 +0000

Josh,
Did you sync your contact list with a PDA or other service? Losing the emails is tough but you will hear from the people you need to speak with fairly often. It is the contact list that has the most value. Using a Yahoo, GMail or other off-site account may be just for such emergencies. I would look at backups, restoration services and service centers for some help.
Telling you to backup frequently at this point is salt in your wound. I use an old computer for just such things. It just makes it easy.

Good luck. I once had to pay a few thousand dollars to recover data from a crashed disk. It was painful but worth it.

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:43:19 +0000

Josh,

Sorry to hear about the mishap. A similar issue happened to me about six months ago with my previous ecommerce business. I ran Thunderbird on a POP3 account (huge mistake). To make a long story short the hard drive crashed and I wasn’t using a backup so everything was gone. Lesson learned.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:21:03 +0000

Josh,

If you have a good backup of the data, or one that may be good but you are not sure, start calling the MAC shops in your neck of the woods. Odds are there are tools for Entourage just as there are for Outlook that can recover the data.

You probably will have to pay a couple of nickels for the work, but that is for you to determine how much it is worth. I have saved many an Outlook file the owner, who in the midst of a huge stress attack, could not see that they could be saved.

Good luck, I know it is a very difficult time.

Tom

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:03:51 +0000

I personally use Kontact with G-Mail. I have all of my e-mails also download into G-Mail, so if I loose them at one place they’re still at the other. Unfortunately I don’t know how I’ll import/export if one is lost, but at least I’ll still have the e-mails accessable somewhere.