ALSO - MORE THREADJACKING
cunting cunting cunting outlook has frozen with a massive draft email of advice that has taken me an hour having disappeared (i pressed our "send and file" button and the screen has just gone plain white with the file number at the top of the screen).... how can i retrieve this, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease????????
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:11, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

How frozen?
Is it likely to come back to life if you go away and have a cup of tea for ten minutes?

Failing that, Outlook is usually quite good and saving drafts automatically, so there's a good chance you'll only have lost what you typed in, say, the last five minutes.

If, of course, you either typed far too much to remember in the last five minutes and/or really don't trust your computer, I'd grab a pen and paper... EDIT: Sorry, just re-read your post - is that to say everything has disappeared from the screen?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:13, Reply)

IT HAS ALL GONE
ALL OF IT

i hate computers with a passion, i really really do.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:16, Reply)

Presumably you're running Outlook on the same computer that's allowing you to post these messages of distress?
If so then you may have just to play the waiting game.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:17, Reply)

And if all else fails. You're a hot-shot lawyer and Bill Gates has loads of money.

(Cave Duck, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)

IT tell me that the log-in for my outlook expired
they can't tell me why

and they can't retrieve the email. possibly because i got impatient and just turned the computer off at the socket.

stupid computer, why did it decide to expire its own log-in? argh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)

Hmm.
Do you have one of those systems that logs you off if it doesn't detect any activity for half an hour or so in the name of security?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)

no...............

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)

You should sue your IT department for one-hours labour
And any additional costs.

That'll teach 'em.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 17:04, Reply)

Try turning it off and on again.



Women.
(TheColonel, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:17, Reply)

ctrl alt delete
shut down outlook reopen it and it should be in your drafts.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:18, Reply)