Desperately looking for lostCan t work

[fraser1]

Can anyone help me find two hours worth of work?
I wanted to make changes to an email I had sent so I clicked the reply to sender and made a lot of changes.  It saves automatically and I always have a quick look and it was in the draft file.  On my final look through I was happy with it and went to the drafts and it had gone. Looked in sent, received and trash with no luck.
What have I done and does anyone know where it could be?

Going to bed now but doubt if I will be able to sleep.  Not looking forward to doing it all again.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Sandra

[downside]

To clarify:-

1) You did not actually compose a new email.  Instead you went into the Sent folder and opened an existing email and clicked Reply - which meant you were sending it to yourself because you were the originator of the email.  Did you open it and then select Forward in order to select and send it to another recipient?
2) You mentioned that there was an email in the draft folder but are you sure it was the email you were working on?  The reason I say that is because when I start amending an email I have sent it does not show up in the draft folder.

I guess if you are going to work on something for 2 hours then it is probably best to copy the text into another program like Word and make your amendments there an then copy the amended text back later when you are ready to send.

I am not sure what program you are using but if you have closed your computer down then any temporary files and memory buffers that were open have been removed/flushed so you have probably lost the work.

[fraser1]

Thank you for taking the time to give a very helpful and detailed reply.

A hard lesson  to learn. Best part of morning to redo and not as well done.

I have printed out your instructions and will follow next time.

Sandra