acronis

[Baz]

If I do recovery with Acronis do you lose any new emails or new favourites you might have got since the last back up

[Lance]

It depends. If when you download the email it keeps a copy on the server then it should redownload them. Otherwise yes you would lose them. All depends on your setup.

[D-Dan]

Not one to contradict, but it depends on a couple of things:

i. Do you download email to a local location (for example, Thunderbird will download emails to your HD)
ii. Do you do a full backup

If the answer to both is "yes" then your backed up emails will be restored with the backup. If the answer to i. is yes but to ii. is no, then unless you have your email client set up to not delete mail from the server you are likely to lose them

On the other hand, if you use webmail, then it is likely that provided you can log in to your web email, all you mails will be intact.

[Technical Ben]

Could you not quickly backup any documents (either individually or the folders) and emails (no idea how to do that) on a cd/disk then do a full restore?
I think only the likes of windows rollback (which is like an uninstall, not a reimage) keeps your documents untouched.
A second way to prevent future mix ups is to have windows on a main partition, and documents and emails on a second. So breaking windows, leaves the bulk of the documents safe.

[Baz]

Thanks guys I'll sort it.

not going to do a recovery at the moment as I may have the problem sorted but yes I download to my machine and delete from server and when I backup its originally full then incremental.

I use outlook express for emails and just had a look and messages can be exported so that will do for me.

[armadillo]

I use outlook express for emails and just had a look and messages can be exported so that will do for me.

Unless they've changed something in Outlook Express, all that does is allow you to export your emails to a different email client. But it does not backup anything.

What you need to do is copy the email folder. In Windows XP, it is

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities

[Baz]

Thanks again will take a look at that.

  for the PM  Armadillo