Windows 7 back-up. MediaID has emails in it I have never rec'd?

[xylophone]

I am using a Buffalo Ministation as a backup on my Windows 7 Ultimate system and as it is almost full, I was looking at the content of it to see if there was any way I could reduce it.

There was one file on it called "MediaID" and when I tried to open it, it just said that it wasn't possible, however under the contents of "My PC" I found the same file name again, only this time I was able to open it and it had in it some PDF files of e-mails that had been sent to me and I have never seen!!

I know this because I have recently been speaking to the organisation in NZ and they had been sending hardcopies to my old address.

So the puzzle is.............how on earth are e-mails that are being sent to my e-mail address never being received in my inbox and going straight to this file in my backup disk???

I am completely baffled, so are there any computer whizzes out there who could help? I will supply any other info you need, but I am not that super computer savvy, just moderately so.

Thanks in anticipation.

[Chicog]

The mediaID file is created when you do a Windows Backup I think. Are you sure you didn't receive these emails but just didn't notice that they had attachments?

Or do you have something that blocks attachments in your email? (PDF's used to be considered a security threat due to them being able to host malware).

[harrry]

Were they in your junk folder?

[xylophone]

The mediaID file is created when you do a Windows Backup I think. Are you sure you didn't receive these emails but just didn't notice that they had attachments?

Or do you have something that blocks attachments in your email? (PDF's used to be considered a security threat due to them being able to host malware).

Thanks for replying Chicog.................just about 100% sure that they have never been in my inbox, this esp as they are important, so would have def looked for them.

The PDF thing is interesting as I used to have "Foxit Reader" to convert PDF files. The emails in the mediaID file date back almost a year and surely if they were blocked by an AV or similar prog they wouldn't have found their way thru to this file????

[xylophone]

Were they in your junk folder?

Thanks harry...................I usually check this as these were important, however it is not beyind the realms of possibility that they went into junk about the time the back-up kicked in, but then surely they would still have been there, not just disappeared?

Not trying to be awkward as I need to know why they aren't appearing in my inbox as they are important quarterly financial statements that enable me to stay here!!

[xylophone]

Again my thanks to Chicog and harry for taking the time to respond, and I may have hit on some sort of explanation, although still not sure about this.

Yesterday I had a computer whiz friend come round to look at the backup situation and also the above-mentioned problem and he could not find the PDF files in the mediaID file, they had simply disappeared. However he did eventually find the PDF files in the download section of Firefox.

Still strange, because the PDF files had no e-mails or anything attached to them, so how on earth did they get there as I had not downloaded them and they had never appeared in my e-mail inbox?.

Any other suggestions would be helpful so I could prevent this happening in the future. Even my computer whiz friend could not understand how/why, so I may just have to live with it!!!!!

[Chicog]

Stating the obvious, but anyone else accessing your computer?

[harrry]

What do you mean you did not download them. Were they emailed, if so they were atachments and to have been read needed to be downloaded. This may have used firefox's download manager.

[xylophone]

Thanks again guys...................I'm the only one using the computer.

I think harry might have the solution, that they were downloaded by Firefox. I have never seen them before or had them come into my inbox, and I came across them inadvertantly lurking in a file!!!

Maybe it's just me, so thanks for taking the time to respond Chicog and harry, much appreciated.

Cheers.