Originally Posted by
Tom Stenzel
I'm not familiar with Carbonite so I don't know how thorough the backup is. But there's room for gotchas if all you've backed up is the contents of the \user names\Document folder. One would be email. If your email is entirely web based there's no problem. If you have email stored locally you'll have to dig it out. For instance using Seamonkey for my one POP email account, the email is stored in the easily found and intuitive location:
C:\Documents and Settings\(User name)\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\7nid2upu.default\M ail
:)
Would Staples have found and transferred that? I wouldn't bet a used doughnut hole on it.
Typically email programs have an export function to make it easier for the user. I just wrote a batch file to pick up all the digital junk in all the places that I want, copy everything to the USB drive.
-Tom