Learn From the Burn. I've been Yahoo'd.

We all have several email boxes that we use. I use Yahoo for larger files and most of my everyday mail as I can access it no matter where I am. A couple months ago my pc was running pretty slow and when I went into my Yahoo mail it said I had 0 sent files. Of course I had 5 years worth of files on there but it showed zero. I emailed Yahoo who think I probably deleted them accidentally. Ok...there is no delete "all" button on Yahoo so I would have had to hit delete over a thousand times to get rid of them all. I probably would have remembered that. Not wanting to argue I said it didn't matter why they were gone. let's just put them back. Lesson Two...Once they are gone there is no getting them back. I do copy to disk every year but this was in October so I still lost all of my Sent emails from Jan 1 thru Oct 10. Yikes. Up to this day I thought Yahoo was pretty reliable service and have never had issue in 5 years of use. I am not crying over spilled milk but trying to prevent others from making the same mistake I made. While normally 99% reliable, that other 1% can do quite a bit of damage. Probably should back up your emails a little more frequently (I now do mine monthly). It would amaze you how many times I have wanted to look back at what was said in a email that is gone forever so take a few minutes and copy all of your emails to disc or external hard drive. You may be very glad you did. Best of luck and thanks for reading.