To all of you "BOC's -- Backup Obsessive Compulsives,"

If you truly know about SP2, YOU would know it had a pop up screen that said
"please wait while we backup your files." Ergo, backups (or lack thereof)
were not the problem anyway. The problem is, where did it put the backed up
files, what was I supposed to do with them and (most importantly), why should
I know what to do with them?
This isn't my field! It's Microsoft's! Your doctor does not expect you to
be medically trained to be treated, your phamacist does not expect you to
know how drugs interact, whu are computer people always expecting the general
public to learn THEIR profession?

"Jon" wrote:

A man walks into a doctor's surgery......


"Well I took that medicine that you prescribed for me last week Doctor.....
Seemed to do the trick...... Only trouble is now is my memory seems to have
totally gone. I can't remember any of my friends and relatives names &
addresses"

"Did you make a full list of all your friends and relatives before taking
the pill? Did you write them down on a separate piece of paper and put them
in a draw". "You should do that before each pill that you take"


"Errrr....right...was I supposed to? I didn't do that before the last pills
you gave me"


"Yes it was on the instructions in the packet. You only have yourself to
blame. Now get out of my surgery till you learn to read the instructions in
medicine packets properly!"


Disgruntled, he decides to go for a second opinion....


"Doc, I've lost my memory. Can't remember any of my friends and relatives"

"Ok..what's that big book sticking out of your pocket with 'Address Book'
written on it...or that one with 'Photo Album' & 'letters' on it?"

Aaaagh my addresses, my friends, my photos .. I remember!!!








"Rock" wrote in message
...
Jim wrote:

You "techies" crack me up! A bunch of people have had this and others
problems, but it's not Microsofts fault it changed my data, it's the
customer's fault. If these were tires and this many probs, it would be
recalled!

"Stephen Harris" wrote:


"Jim" wrote in message
...

How bout helping me with my problems. Countless people are having
problems
with this "virus" called "SP2", and a few people (obviously Microsoft
employees) say it so great.


Nope, I am a computer tech and this is the best ever Service Pack.
Windows Firewall let's you have a small home network without
having to be a techy.

Your email is still there, but it is in a different folder,
look it up on groups.google.com
type in keywords in the search window

Upgrade to XP SP2 has deleted all my old e-mail messages
reply by Steve Cochran
6. How does one backup and restore or transfer OE messages and settings:

See: http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Note that there is also a link in this article to MVP David Guess's free
OEBackup programs (www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/) or

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/ oebackupfull2.9.zip

- the full installation with all support files.

In a high volume newsgroup some posts are going to get overlooked.
It is practically quicker and more efficient to use Google in many cases.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;q313055
http://support.microsoft.com/default...t=windowsxpsp2

Netscape changed the location of where email was stored
between version 6 and version 7, which was then not
automatically imported. Some people change the default
storage location on the hard drive so import needs to be
done manually. A minor inconvenience.

Use your OE backup if you can't find these files. You have
been told many times to make backups and for SP2 you
were told again to make a backup of important files. When
you run into a problem which could be corrected by having
a backup it is nobody's fault but your own that you have a
problem because creating a backup was just too much for
you to trouble yourself with. So instead of accepting this
responsibility you try to put the blame on Microsoft.
Computers were only invented about 55 years ago.
Software that runs on them will not approach perfection
for centuries to come. That is why you need backups.

You remind me of people who drive cars and never choose
to check the oil even though they know they are "supposed" to.
I've installed Sp2 for eleven clients. Nine no problems. One
required a re-installation of a program. The other needed the
service pack upgrade rerun from the harddrive.



Well this will make the third time I've posted about this, so far no
help!

Here's my problem:

Installed service pack 2.

It wiped out my settings in "Outlook Express."
The Account, POP Server and SMTP Server info were gone. I
reconfigured,
Now my previously read mail, address book contacts, etc, are gone.
Plus,
now I'm not receiving any new mail.

How can I get it back? I REALLY, REALLY need to recover some of the
mail.
Unfortunately for some reason, my System Restore was turned off.

Thanks - Jim


If you can be bothered to read my email and the links contained therein,
you will find the solution to recover your files.

The important word is _backup_, whether doing an OS upgrade or running a
system that doesn't change and is isolated from the net. It's not a
matter of if but when data loss occurs. The only common sense approach is
to have regular and complete backups. If you don't grasp that point and
follow it, don't complain when data loss happens. You own it.