Need help with Outlook pretty quick

I would check in two places: "Drafts" and "Deleted Items". Outlook does periodically save your work as you type, and if you close out of something after saving, it should go into drafts. if you close out without saving, but if outlook had previously autosaved, then it'll go into "deleted items".

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probably gone. it would be in the drafts folder in outlook unless you specifically save it somewhere else.

 

probably gone. it would be in the drafts folder in outlook unless you specifically save it somewhere else.

 

Just some thoughts, I would create a test email message and do what you did when you lost the draft. It may still be there, especially if Word is its default editor. It may save it as an rtf document and it could be in the temp folders. The test message would allow you to locate it by searching temp folders for something that was created around the time that you closed out Outlook Express. Do you even see the draft folder? If not, it may just not be in your view. Check the view options to see if any folders aren't being displayed yet. Check the sent folder to make sure that it didn't send it. When you closed out Outlook Express, did it show a dialog box asking if you wanted to save it? You can also do an advanced search looking for emails created on the day that you "lost" it.

 

i do not know...outlook express is good at closing without asking if you want to save...it has none of the standard word processing safe guards built in