Retrieving lost COPIED (NOT) Yahoo email document in XP/IE

It's happened to us all at some point.

Here goes….

Replying to my boss with an extensive Yahoo email. Before I was going to send it I decided to COPY it (right click) and paste it in a WORD document and SAVE it…JUST IN CASE!!!

So when I go to PASTE it into the Word document all that gets pasted is the last thing I COPIED BEFORE this replied to email draft and NOT the draft itself. I thought "OH.OH!" So I went back to the email and tried to re-paste it (thinking it would…but it didn't).

So where did this reply go to??????? And more importantly, is it retrievable??????

I'm aware there may be programs that coul've helped if they were installed BEFORE the incident and I'm in the process of using a program called RECUVA, even though for emails Yahoo isn't listed as one of their email programs that it works with. I don't know if this would even BE a Yahoo issue vs a Windows XP issue or even an IE issue.

Do I stand a chance or just go back to the drawing board?

Thanks!

I have seen that happen numerous times now, can't explain it, I'm guessing it may be a right click rule blocking in there somewhere, if right click fails to work try using the keyboard shortcuts, highlight text to copy then; CTRL + C to copy, then CTRL + V to paste where you want it. The only other approach is to write it in Word or similar first, then copy and paste it over, but in this case you "should" find a copy of what you sent in the Sent menu of your email, just look under your inbox icon (assuming they are stacked one over the other) click on Sent mail, and as long as it's set up to do so (most if not all are by default in my experience) you should see what you sent there, hope it helps.

NP, I can only guess that the server had a couple of hic-up's which caused that, but glad your sorted anyway.