I'm so pissed! I lost all my IM logs!!!

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Shivatron

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Love Trillian. But I never even thought of backing up my log files. I think I will have to get into the habit of doing that.
 

crab

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Jan 29, 2001
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Trillian does suck, and you never responded to my IM earlier.
 

thirtythree

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Aug 7, 2001
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I use deadaim and backup my logs every once in a while. I'm a little paranoid I think. I backup my e-mails too. and all my documents of course.
 

Staples

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Oct 28, 2001
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I bought a program called Undelete (www.executivesoftware.com) a while back when I got some nasty virus which deleted everything. I was able to recover almost all mp3s and other big files but the files I wanted (digital pictures) I was only able to recover few. It seems that fiiles that are over 2 megs are overwriten last. Good thing I actually had a backup from a few months earlier.
 

Mday

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Oct 14, 1999
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your files are gone, since you decided to continue using your HDD. you already overwrote areas of the HDD where the files were stored.
 

Shawn

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Apr 20, 2003
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Originally posted by: Mday
your files are gone, since you decided to continue using your HDD. you already overwrote areas of the HDD where the files were stored.

yea no sh!t? By the time I realised they were gone the logs were already overwritten.
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