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   Guess Who to Doug G   
   Re: bookmarks vanished without a trace   
   24 Mar 05 16:24:41   
   
   From: trobert29@cox.net   
      
   No address book is fine, nothing else seems to be missing,  I did no   
   upgrade or install new software during this time, did a full virus scan   
   with Norton and am clean, and I was lazy and have no backup of this   
   file.  I just cannot have imagined losing these bookmarks without   
   another major event happening to bring this about!!!   
      
   Doug G wrote:   
   > Guess Who wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>HELP!!!!  I have years of my life invested in my bookmark file and they   
   >>just disappeared, with no rhyme or reason, without a trace.  I did a   
   >>normal shutdown at days end and the next day when I went to access them   
   >>they were gone.  REALLY GONE!!!  I did search after search to no avail,   
   >>I checked the recycle bin and they were not there, and I did TWO system   
   >>restores with no luck.  I am an expert computer / Netscape user and I   
   >>know that for me to have done this, if I wanted to, I would have to had   
   >>to do several steps to delete them.  This is not the case.  They   
   >>disappeared!!  I am running Windows XP Home and Netscape 7.1.  HELP   
   >>PLEASE!!!!!!!    Thanks       Tom   
   >>   
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   >   
   > Is anything else missing (address books, mail or newsgroups)?   
   > Did you install or upgrade any software just prior to their disappearance?   
   > Do you have backups?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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