Skunky
10-17-2006, 02:21 PM
Good morning everyone. I am having a strange idiosyncrasy problem with Outlook 2002. I am running a Dell 8250 Win XP Pro SP2 – P4 – 2.66GHz – 1GB memory. I haven’t installed or made any significant changes to my system and my computer is up-to-date. Actually, this isn’t true. I did install a Outlook 2002 Add-on for backing up emails last week, but this shouldn’t have anything to do with this problem as this has happened in the past prior to installing this add-on. I searched this forum and couldn’t find any related posts, so I am posting now.
The problem relates to Outlook 2002 specifically emails in which I can read until I go to read another email. When I come back to the previous email I just read, it has vanished. Gone - *Poof*. The actual information about the email (To, From, Subject, Received, etc) is intact, but the body of the email is gone. For example, I do a lot of property report searches using Intellius.com and after conducting a property search, Intellius sends me a confirmation email detailing the charges. I have these confirmation emails stored in a separate folder within Outlook and when I get the confirmation, there is the email with the paper clip to the left of the ‘From’. I have many, many confirmation emails going back to May 2006. For some reason, when I was checking this folder today, each time I clicked on an email and then clicked on another email, that previous email’s paper clip would disappear. I also had a few confirmation emails in my inbox from yesterday and they disappeared the same way too. I thought this was strange when it happened so after I saw the first paper clip disappear, I went back to the email and the body of it was gone. As long as I stayed on that initial email when clicking, I was okay, but the moment I left that email to go to another, the paper clip would disappear and then when going back to the previous email, it was gone. This happened both in my inbox as well as all emails in my Intellius folder going back to May 2006. This folder now has emails with no information except for the fundamentals (The Headers). This has also happened with other emails from time to time. It’s not exclusive to emails from Intellius. This problem doesn’t seem to relate to the normal emails I get on a routine basis - Emails from business contacts, friends, spam, etc. It seems to stem from people sending me links from other websites or other areas on the web. Actually, I’m not sure about that or if there is even a pattern to be traced. It’s very strange.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem and is there a way to get the original email information back??? The first time this happened was like 2 months ago, but the problem was sporadic and not prevalent enough to raise concern, but now it is becoming an issue. I have been using this computer since 2002, do not believe it to be riddled with adware and have no idea what the catalyst could be, if any.
Thanks for your time and have a great day!!
~Gwen
The problem relates to Outlook 2002 specifically emails in which I can read until I go to read another email. When I come back to the previous email I just read, it has vanished. Gone - *Poof*. The actual information about the email (To, From, Subject, Received, etc) is intact, but the body of the email is gone. For example, I do a lot of property report searches using Intellius.com and after conducting a property search, Intellius sends me a confirmation email detailing the charges. I have these confirmation emails stored in a separate folder within Outlook and when I get the confirmation, there is the email with the paper clip to the left of the ‘From’. I have many, many confirmation emails going back to May 2006. For some reason, when I was checking this folder today, each time I clicked on an email and then clicked on another email, that previous email’s paper clip would disappear. I also had a few confirmation emails in my inbox from yesterday and they disappeared the same way too. I thought this was strange when it happened so after I saw the first paper clip disappear, I went back to the email and the body of it was gone. As long as I stayed on that initial email when clicking, I was okay, but the moment I left that email to go to another, the paper clip would disappear and then when going back to the previous email, it was gone. This happened both in my inbox as well as all emails in my Intellius folder going back to May 2006. This folder now has emails with no information except for the fundamentals (The Headers). This has also happened with other emails from time to time. It’s not exclusive to emails from Intellius. This problem doesn’t seem to relate to the normal emails I get on a routine basis - Emails from business contacts, friends, spam, etc. It seems to stem from people sending me links from other websites or other areas on the web. Actually, I’m not sure about that or if there is even a pattern to be traced. It’s very strange.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem and is there a way to get the original email information back??? The first time this happened was like 2 months ago, but the problem was sporadic and not prevalent enough to raise concern, but now it is becoming an issue. I have been using this computer since 2002, do not believe it to be riddled with adware and have no idea what the catalyst could be, if any.
Thanks for your time and have a great day!!
~Gwen