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Re: lost 95 of contacts To eliminate the more obvious... is icloud your only source of backup? IE, do you have any copy of your PST data file(s) on any of your hard drives or removable media, thumb drive, CD, DVD, etc? I think facing your situation I'd gather whatever files contain my...

Looked at those mail format settings -- they are already set just as you mention. Looks like this one may remain a mystery, eh? Any comment re whether or not AV programs write to email messages (I thought they only read them)..? Thanks, Diane, I really appreciate your expertise. And from the...

Diane, thank you much for bothering to analyze that data. I was not aware that any AV scanner would ever be coded to WRITE within an email file (always assumed AV would only READ and then act upon a problem, such as quarantine the item). And the more I think about it, why WOULD an AV app ever...

No problem, just glad to see someone willing to look at this oddity. Using Avast free AV for some time without issues. Ran full scans with Malwarebytes, and with the MS boot disk, Windows Defender Offline -- nothing found. Bloated message size seems to have passed: After rising steadily over...

Additional info: Attached is the source (zipped text file) for one of the largest of these odd oversized messages. Very strange, contains a LOT of what seems to be repetitive data. Curiouser and curiouser...

Using Outlook 2007, up to date, for personal use, not business or Exchange. Suddenly there is a huge increase in message size; these are ordinary, brief, HTML messages with NO attachments or inline images. Previously they have been under 10k. Now they are hundreds of kilobytes, as is shown in...