AboutScottgem Expertise With over 16 years of experience in Information Technology I have acquired a large store of knowledge about computing. This enables me to answer a large variety of questions about computing.
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Expert: Scottgem Date: 5/25/2008 Subject: Yahoo Web Mail Lost
Question I have a pretty frustrating situation, I set up MS Outlook on an old computer that died and I no longer have the hard drive (I think). The problem is that when I set up Outlook, it downloaded my messages from the Yahoo server and I can no longer retrieve them via the web. Is there any way to get those emails back from Yahoo? I did try some of my old Hard Drives in my new Vista PC and I did a search for *.pst but I know that there are permission issues and I don't even find any *.pst files. It's a mess!
Thank you,
Landon
Answer No, Yahoo won't retrieve those mails. PST files are generally hidden so make sure when you search you search for hidden files. There shouldn't be any secuirty issues.
I strongly suggest you setup a backup process on your new machine. One good way is to get an external USB drive and backup to it.
