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Thanks Dave.

The machine DID come with Vista Ultimate installed on it. However, this is the first machine I have ever purchased that did NOT come with any kind of backup or restore disks whatsoever (It’s a Toshiba machine, and I bought it directly from Toshiba, so I’m sure everything is legit). AND…..it’s the first time I’ve ever NEEDED restore or backup disks)

I’ll talk with my computer guy and see what he says about this suggestion. I’m not sure where he got the version that he installed on the new hard drive.

-cynthia

I fixed it!
It turns out that adding a space before the closing bracket makes it disappear in the printed version. Stumbled on that totally by accident and don’t understand it at all, but it did the trick.

Yes! There it was – Filter on Load “Yes” in the property sheet (and the weirdest little filter in the “Filter” property – to search for that member’s email address!)
Any clue how that filter would have made its way into that property sheet in the first place?
And does the “order by” underneath the “Filter on Load” apply to that filter, so I should delete that as well?

Thanks

OOPS – I spoke too soon.

Links in IE and Firefox correctly launch Live Mail (I think those were okay all along)
Right clicking on a Microsoft Office document (Word, etc.) and choosing “send to” correctly launches Live Mail.
Using the “send to” option from within an MS Office document correctly launches Live Mail.
BUT…..
Using either of those methods to send a pdf document launches Outlook! Maybe this is a Vista problem, not an Outlook problem? Or maybe an Acrobat problem?
Adobe Pagemaker documents launch the Live Mail.
HTML documents launch Live Mail.
A font file launches Live Mail.
A jpg file launches Live Mail.

Any clues?

Thank you Hans. I also did another restart, just for good measure – and it Windows Live Mail is now functioning as my default email again.

Am I correct that there is no way to make Outlook Calendar the default calendar while Live Mail is the default email handler?

Thanks Wendell.

I just tried it by including a linked table – rather than the whole table – and it seemed to work on my colleague’s computer.
That’s one of the things I think is great about Access. There is almost always more than one way to solve a problem!

-cynthia

Thank you Hans.

I think that will work! Unless I’m doing something I don’t realize, I don’t think I ever do formatting in a query, anyway – in my databases all the formatting happens in the forms and reports. So I don’t think the disadvantage would make much difference to me.

Thanks again.
-cynthia

You could try doing this from the other application. For example in word you can use File > Send to > Mail Recipient as Attachment

Thanks. That’s a good idea. I’ll make sure my work account is the default account (it isn’t right now, but easy enough to change that).

(p.s. – just tried it. Works like a charm. Thanks again!)

Take a look in the Recently Changed folder C:UsersusernameSearchesRecently Changed and see if that file is in there.

I found the information here.

Thanks for your dogged persistence in trying to solve this mystery!

Still no luck. I went to my user name and searches and recently changed and did not see the file. It is now about six days ago and I have changed a lot of files- but I had them sorted by date and did find the one that we recreated in vy documents right after we lost the one in question, so I know I was on the right day.

Just in case I was simply overlooking it, I opened a file on an email and made a change, hit “cntrl s” and closed it (without saving to my documents), then went to the recently saved folder again. It didn’t show up there. And I also noticed that the most recent thing it DOES show is from yesterday and it appears to show everything I remember changing yesterday. So I also went into a Word document that I created this morning and made a change, saved and closed it and went back to recently saved. It still shows nothing more recent than yesterday. So I restarted the computer – STILL nothing more recent than when I turned off the computer yesterday.

I also tried looking at recently saved under the other two users (Public and Default) and notice that there is no such folder for either of them, I suppose because even when I’m working in Public I’m still logged in as myself. But I checked anyway.

The post you link to is an interesting explanation of the recently saved folder. Thanks for that info.

But still no luck on where they hide the email attachment documents!

From here…..

“The file should be located in a folder somewhere in
C:Users(youraccount)AppDataLocalMicrosoftWin dowsTemporary Internet
FilesContent.IE5

Windows Explorer won’t let you navigate to this folder, but it will show the
Content.IE5 folder and subfolders, only if you manually enter the path into
the address bar.”

(How unhelpful to make files you have to know the path to find!).
But, in any case, I navigated to that folder and it says it is empty. I doublechecked to be sure that I have “show hidden files and folders” checked, and I do. The only “users” on this computer are myself, Default, and Public. After trying the file path with my name, I tried it with both Default and Public. Public tells me that it won’t let me go there, and Default yields an empty folder just as my account does.

So it is still a mystery. Thanks for your efforts to solve this with me Doc Watson, but MS still apparently has us stumped.

As Dave says, it may be a hidden or system folder. Another possibility is a temp folder used by the program you were editing the file with. Follow Dave’s trick to locate the folder.

You might also check if the program has a Open Recent… feature, and check to see if it can be opened, with the edits intact, from there.

Regretfully, tried both those with no success. I’m mystified – not merely at what happened to my saves, I KNOW I goofed there, but where ARE those files kept in Vista???

Baffled.

The file may be in a hidden or system folder, you need to show them from the options in Windows Explorer.

To help, open the attachment and do a “Save As” and see where it is going to be saved, this may tell you what folder you need to look in. Do NOT save it, cancel out of the save, this save may over write the one you are looking for unless you change the path of name.

I do have the “show hidden folders” checked.

And unfortunately I already tried the trick you suggest. It just tries to put it in the Documents folder! I also tried opening an attachment document and then, from that document, going to “open” to see what folder it would start in – that also starts in Documents. I tried this with attachments in several formats, not just Word. I am SURE that when I’ve done this suggestion in the past it has had the result that you suggests it will have – but perhaps I am remembering my XP computer, with which I parted company not all that long ago?

Still baffled.
By now we have rewritten the lost document, but now it just BUGS me and I want to find those files!

Have you tried the Sent folder ??

Nope. We didn’t send it to anyone – we just closed it in the email we received it with. But on your suggestion I did look in the sent items. I don’t see anything there other than emails that I’ve sent.

I assume that the attachments are stored as separate documents (separate from the emails that is) somewhere on the hard drive. They were in OE. And it used to be in OE on XP that if you went to save a document that came attached to an email, it would try to save it in that temporary folder (and WOULD save it there if you weren’t paying attention and change the destination folder to somewhere else). So I’m thinking those changes might be saved wherever the original attachment “lives” on the hard drive, with the same name with a (1) after it or something. Any hope of that?

Searches don’t turn up the original document anywhere – but obviously that one exists! And we can’t find any folder that appears to store the attachments.

Just to close out this topic, I had a professional work on it Friday morning. He did an uninstall and also used an “Office Removal Tool” that cleans out all the stuff Office leaves behind (I had already tried deleting the various Office folders I could find – that didn’t do it). Then we did a fresh install of the Office 2007 Trial version (decided to just forget about the XP2002 version, so I guess I’ll be buying 2007 sometime before the end of June).

This worked, and I can now open the file I was trying to open – and also send and receive email from my computer again.

Thanks for the suggestions along the way.
-cynthia

Thanks for the Google link. I tried a couple of those things – no luck. I don’t want to mess with the registry myself and it looks like that’s what it’s going to take, so I’ve called in a professional for Friday morning (was hoping to resolve this before then, but computers sometimes just work in their own time!)

-cynthia