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Letter: Eternal e-mail

Published 25 November 2000

From Charlotte Morley

If “deleted” computer documents and e-mails can be recovered and used as
evidence in trials
(28 October, p 18),
surely recovery of files thought to be deleted could also help victims of computer
malfunction. I recently lost my A-level physics coursework when my computer
crashed while I was backing up an entire summer’s work.

I would have been eternally grateful to find out I could recover my
apparently deleted project. Was there something I could have done to prevent my
having to rewrite everything?

Bicester, Oxfordshire

Issue no. 2266 published 25 November 2000

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