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| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 7:46 am |
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#1 | | thunderbird sit on a backup. Our computer died, I managed to backup all computer before hand yeay. Even Harvey Norman had our hard drive and was trying to backup for us as well. They and I can't find my emails on thunderbird nor our favourites on internet. I've found the file for both on backup but they are empty. do these programmes store elsewhere on backup or what... . thks | |
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| geek_jcmp21 |
May 14, 2010, 7:52 am |
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#2 | | What kind of backup did you do using what software? |
| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 7:54 am |
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#3 | | I just used the programme under control panel, you know where is says backup or restore area |
| geek_jcmp21 |
May 14, 2010, 7:55 am |
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#4 | | and vista? |
| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 7:57 am |
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#5 | | yep |
| geek_jcmp21 |
May 14, 2010, 8:08 am |
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#6 | I have a bad feeling vista home versions don't backup applications etc.
There is I think a full backup option that takes an image of the disk on business and ultimateversions, so you can just reload the OS back onto the disk.
Check back for some more answers when other come in as I'm not100 percent sure and they will know this stuff inside out. |
| geek_0800xford |
May 14, 2010, 8:08 am |
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#7 | i bet he's googling it...
you could always use this http://mozbackup. jasnapaka.com/ |
| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 8:12 am |
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#8 | | thanks oxford. so if I get Harveys to try backup with this programme then they will be able to get my info out. When I told them I use thunderbird he didn't even know what that was. Not sure about how techy is in in the tech bay area. LOL |
| geek_drcspy |
May 14, 2010, 8:14 am |
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#9 | 'my computer died'
please detail what is wrong with it
I assume the hard drive has no fault because otherwise how'd they get the data off it |
| geek_0800xford |
May 14, 2010, 8:21 am |
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#10 | | what? -never- rely on the shop to save your data, do it yourself. |
| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 8:21 am |
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#11 | oh don't go there why it died. It was in the repair shop for over a month, got it back home after they replaced a fan and motherboard and then within in 10 days it failed again. They have replaced our computer now with a brand new one. HN have our old one the other day I was talking to them as they were going to backup onto disk, my favs and emails but they couldn't find it. I was sure how to 'undo' my backup. I played around with it and found stuff ie games and pdf downloads, music etc. all stuff except for emails and favs.
before they old computer crapped out again I did a backup after finding out from here that I can backup onto external hard drives and not disks. disks I wasn't sure which one to use. LOLI know a wee bit but not enough lol |
| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 8:22 am |
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#12 | | baCK SOON:-) |
| geek_jcmp21 |
May 14, 2010, 8:28 am |
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#13 | | That sounds more promising. Maybe the system unit is being referred to as the hard drive and the old hdd is still holding data for the plucking. |
| geek_0800xford |
May 14, 2010, 8:46 am |
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#14 | | depends how much data you have to save, not much point using 50 CD's when you could just use a couple of DVD's aye. |
| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 9:00 am |
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#15 | HEY thanks guys. I will try and ring them this morning hoping that they might still have old computer and see if they can pluck out that info via that website you gave me oxford. in future for my stuff what do I do? I get loads of website each day for homeschooling etc and now a feel like my left arm has been cut off. I thought I was doing good backing up. infact now we have 2 computer one desk and one lap and the desk is backed up everyday. I just leave the seagate on now. BUT if I can't get out emails and favs etc now... ? ?
I wish I knew more stuff about puters. I pop in here now and then looking for info, you guys have a huge amount of info for us lot out there cheers and hip hooray for you guys |
| geek_flewy |
May 14, 2010, 9:07 am |
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#16 | | ask them to take the HDD out and put it in a external case for you, take it home and gleam everything off it you need. |
| geek_0800xford |
May 14, 2010, 9:09 am |
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#17 | | you say "favourites" this is internet explorer, why use that when you can use firefox [also made by mozilla, like thunderbird] it's far better. |
| geek_skinner2 |
May 14, 2010, 9:19 am |
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#18 | hi I do use firefox and tb is guess I'm saying fav but mean bookmarks.
as for above I wouldn't have a clue how to gleam. they are happy to do this for me for free as a customer service thingy - so might leave it up to him. I'm emailed web address and so he's going to have a play with it. I'd better get out of here talk soon if you have anymore news for mecheers Nickie :-) |
| geek_pheonix |
May 14, 2010, 11:04 am |
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#19 | If you can't use Mozbackup at all to recover your emails and addressbook, follow the instructions here to move your profile over to a backup folder. http://kb. mozillazine.org/Moving_your_mail_storage_location_
%28Thunderbird%29
Or in shortened form http://fwd4. me/OA8 |
| geek_pheonix |
May 14, 2010, 11:07 am |
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#20 | BTW , Firefox favourites are in the folder , which you can save thhe same as Thunderbird.
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Prof-
iles | |
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