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July 13

Where are my emails?

Hopefully this is a simple qustion.

I'm getting rid of a laptop and I want to copy all the useful data from it first, onto a portable hard drive.

My documents were easy to find and copy. But what about all my emails? Where are they to be found?

It's a Windows 8 machine running MS Outlook.

Best, AndyJones (talk) 15:18, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

If you really mean Outlook (and not Outlook Express, which despite the similar name is really very different inside) then the location of the .PST file with your email is here. A warning: if you're hoping to change to a different email client (Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, etc.) on your new machine, the safest idea is usually to install a copy of that on the old machine, have it import from Outlook, and then migrate across the data files of the new app to the new machine. This is because Outlook's native PST format is proprietary and only imperfectly understood outside Microsoft. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 15:26, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Note that the AppData portion of the address, in the page I linked above, may be hidden. So to navigate to it with Windows Explorer, you might either have to manually type that portion into the address bar, or enable viewing hidden files as described here. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 15:44, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Can an anti-virus be dangerous?

It will have to access processes running and files, so these will have to be made accessible to it (and consequentially to other programs). I mean a common anti-virus from a serious company and not malware trying to pass as anti-virus. OsmanRF34 (talk) 18:21, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Antivirus programs can (and do) have higher OS privileges than other software so that they can inspect executable files and process memory without that information necessarily being available to other software.

However, antivirus products are as buggy as other consumer software, and because of their higher privileges a bug is more likely to be usable to compromise the whole system. Here are a couple of papers that list various attacks: Attacking Antivirus by Feng Xue and Applied attacks against Sophos Antivirus by Tavis Ormandy. -- BenRG (talk) 18:04, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Corrupt .docx file, need help urgently

Dear everyone, I'm in deep trouble. I've been working on a project for over two weeks now, when LibreOffice suddenly closed the file... and I cannot recover it, when it opens, it's about a fourth of what it should be (i. e. about 110000 chars instead of close to half a million)... but the size it shows is right, it's close to a meg, so it seems all the content is still in there. It's a .docx (my mistake) that I've been working on under LibreOffice 4.2.1.1. running on Fedora 20. I've tried, to no avail, MS Word 2013 and 2007 to which I have access, as well as OOo, which is hanging up on me right now on my wife's machine. If anyone has any suggestions or expertise that may help, it's welcome. I've uploaded the file here if anyone would like to take a jab at it. Thanks for any input! Cheers, Ouro (blah blah) 18:45, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

.odt -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 19:09, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

My heart jumped... but still, the file amounts to 110026 chars only... and it should be in excess of four times more... the text cuts of at 'Assets' while there should be much, much more... --Ouro (blah blah) 19:11, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

That's a cautionary tale about having good back-up habits. OsmanRF34 (talk) 19:32, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

More important than uploading the corrupt file is to find a temporary file somewhere in your computer. OsmanRF34 (talk) 19:36, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Maybe it is, hell, this is the first time something like this has happened to me. I can't find any temporary file where it should be (as LO indicates the /tmp folder for temporary file storage, but no dice). --Ouro (blah blah) 19:51, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

I could find this, try to find any of the files listed below.OsmanRF34 (talk) 20:13, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

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No success. I've tried searching manually, and by using find and by using locate. No hits of relevance.

You extracted this from the file I uploaded, right? Perhaps there is a way to extract just some of these files? The document with the actual file contents, most probably document.xml, is the one that I'd need most. How did you come around to this list? Perhaps I can do it on my own? --Ouro (blah blah) 20:41, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

All right, I know how you did this now :) and I extracted that file, and it seems the document is more or less still in there. So now, theoretically, I need to check file by file which one of them is corrupt, and then somehow attempt to repair it and theoretically the original .docx file would be correct... or would it? --Ouro (blah blah) 20:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Just need to strip the tags away from that file somehow and I think I'm home... --Ouro (blah blah) 21:26, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Happy to see that. If you have the text, and it is more or less complete, I'd try to re-make the document, not worry about corrupted files. That would be a way of reviewing the text too.OsmanRF34 (talk) 21:35, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

I would review it anyway, for sure. And I think that's the way I'm gonna go, remove the tags and copy-paste the entire thing into a new document. --Ouro (blah blah) 21:44, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Stripped. I'm going to bed. Thanks for Your help, Osman! --Ouro (blah blah) 21:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

sql query

I am a beginner in oracle database and there are two questions i want to ask. 1.all DMl operations are auto-commit but still Is there any way to retrieve a dropped column in oracle 10g or 11g. 2 there is a column named SAL with say x(y) being datatype(size) and i need to convert it into as accepting p integers and q decimals. what is/are the sql command(s) for it."set" is not allowed.182.18.179.2 (talk) 19:01, 13 July 2014 (UTC)