From: Michael Edwards (mje_at_foxall.com.au)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 01:50:29 EST
Michael Edwards.
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[Bruce Markowitz:]
>When you restart Outlook, it will give you a message that it did not shut
>down properly, and it will not display that last message. Just delete it!
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With me, it was a bit more complicated than that - but, as I said before,
the things I saw happen seem to be non-standard. I received the e-mail, and
when I moved the selection bar there, it crashed Outlook Express.
I later received another copy from someone else, and unfortunately I moved
the selection bar onto it before all the e-mail had finished arriving. It
crashed again, interrupting the e-mail download, and I had to spend hours with
Norton Utilities correcting all the misreported file-lengths for the e-mail
files, because the crash caused these not to be updated properly. If I had
continued using the files without dealing with this, I would have lost some of
the more recent e-mails (those beyond the quoted length of the files in a "dir"
listing), and caused lost clusters on my hard disk.
I fixed that all right, and considered myself lucky that the damage was in
effect limited only to a few hours of my time - and I was glad once again that I
understand the way F.A.T.s keep track of cluster sequences in files, and that I
know how to correct that manually.
When I went back to get my e-mail, it all came in again, including a second
copy of that second infected e-mail, because my service provider's computer
seems to assume the mail is uncollected until I've received *all* of it, and
keeps its own copy if my program crashes before I've received the last e-mail.
I should have therefore had two copies of the second infected e-mail - but the
first had disappeared, although I had received it, and corrected the file length
in the directory listing. It's still there in the Inbox file (I saw it there
while examining the file in Norton Utilities), but for some reason, Outlook
Express only recognized the presence of the second one.
Any idea what's going on here? I don't seem to be infected, but don't feel
entirely sure why things are happening the way they are.
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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