I had about 3000 emails each in my work inbox and sent folders. Pretty much everything I needed to save since I started working at this new job back in May.

On Friday, I said to myself, I really need to delete a bunch of that stuff, maybe I'll do it over the weekend. On Saturday, I thought about it and said, I don't want to do work stuff on my day off, I'll deal with it later.

Well, much to my dismay, I got up this morning and they're ALL GONE. The email server maxed out on my box and dumped them all. I contacted our head tech guy and they don't back up the individual accounts.

Am I a bit upset? Yes. Will the world come to an end? No. It's definitely going to make life difficult for the next few weeks. I had a lot of attachments in there that I had opened but not saved so I will need to find another way to get those. I'm doing my best not to envision how much of a pain this is.

I told my boss this morning, it's not like standing in the middle of the room and screaming will do any good so I'll try and take a calmer approach.

Bottom line, I shouldn't have waited and wouldn't have if I had any idea that could happen. The point is, we never know when something like that will happen so if you need to do something like that...do it!

(((HHHUGGSS)))) I totally understand! I wish that there was something that I could to to help.

While screaming may not help the situation, it does a lot to relieve stress. Maybe a bubble bath?

Lesson learned, now don't beat yourself. You can use that energy in finding a solution.

@chefsam- I would still stand in the middle of the room and scream for a few minutes. You will feel much better.

OMG, I didn't know they could do things like that without advance notification. I'm so sorry you've had such a blow and very much appreciate the head's up.

i don't know what I'd do in such a situation...go to bed, pull the covers over my head and refuse to talk to anyone until I could calm down.

That was always one of my fears, so I deal with them as soon as I possibly can, especially attachments that I might need later. I get laughed at, but I don't care.

Sam, I'm really proud of you for not standing in the middle of the room and screaming. That IS exactly what I would do first.

Elaine

Wow--I have 13,000 emails (many w/attachments) but when I check my email provider I have only used a small amount of the capacity I'm allowed. 3,000 doesn't sound like that much to me! To have them delete it w/no warning is very strange.--Suzy

Though I'm trying to do the email toss-like 100 per day, if possible. After hand surgery a couple days ago I'm not able to type much but my pain has decreased a lot!!! On morphine before surgery--nothing now as far as pain meds. Have to keep hand elevated or I notice it turns blue!

ChefSam: I'm so sorry

Suzy: I'm so glad your pain has decreased ~ hoping it holds.

Suzy, the decreased pain! AWESOME!!! Blue hand, not so much. I hope the swelling and circulation resolve quickly... and I'm so happy for the lessened pain!!

Its wonderful to hear about the decrease in your pain. Suzy enjoy everyday of it. Ann 39

I don't quite scream, but when my computer doesn't behave, I have shouted sometimes. It's my way of letting off steam without throwing it out the window. ChefSam, I feel for you, and commend you on your self-control. I hope you will be able to reconstruct some of what you lost.

The other day, I backed up some documents I'd been working on for taxes. I should do it again soon. I think we sometimes tend to hold off on that because we know we will be modifying a document soon, anyway. We think, "I'll wait til it's complete." Well, replacing part of a doc. is easier than redoing all of it.

I can see how ChefSam might have 3,000 e-mails, because it's related to her job. I cannot imagine 13,000 e-mails; I'd think the system would crash, or at least run out of room. More to the point, how can you deal with so many.

I eliminated a couple hundred today. Most I delete as soon as read; some I keep a while for reference. The Toastmasters ones grow like weeds, so I regularly cull them. Without those, I'd have significantly fewer. It gives me a good feeling to be "lean and mean."

Suzy, I'm glad things are going better for you.