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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1803003" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Yep, if nothing else the power off probably killed your stuff. One last thought before we have a minute of silence for the lost work: Try using a search tool to search your files for something that was in the message that may be relatively unique. Find Any File or EasyFind will both search inside files, including hidden ones, for text. A draft may be lurking somewhere, if you are lucky. You may not be able to send it directly, but may be able to cut/paste at least some of it. Admittedly, this is a really long shot, but hey, it's still better than typing it all in again.</p><p></p><p>For future, one thing I have learned to do is to type in long messages into a text processor (Textedit, or even Pages or Word) and then cut/paste from there to Mail. Mail seems a bit ephemeral until it's sent. With the text editor using autosave, at least my work has SOME backup. Then once sent, I delete (or never fully save) the work from the processor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1803003, member: 396914"] Yep, if nothing else the power off probably killed your stuff. One last thought before we have a minute of silence for the lost work: Try using a search tool to search your files for something that was in the message that may be relatively unique. Find Any File or EasyFind will both search inside files, including hidden ones, for text. A draft may be lurking somewhere, if you are lucky. You may not be able to send it directly, but may be able to cut/paste at least some of it. Admittedly, this is a really long shot, but hey, it's still better than typing it all in again. For future, one thing I have learned to do is to type in long messages into a text processor (Textedit, or even Pages or Word) and then cut/paste from there to Mail. Mail seems a bit ephemeral until it's sent. With the text editor using autosave, at least my work has SOME backup. Then once sent, I delete (or never fully save) the work from the processor. [/QUOTE]
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