Thanks, that's a good comprehensive answer. I've already been in the message store and it's not there. The notes I deleted only exist as a "ghost" in the lexicon, I just wanted to know whether there was any way of reading the lexicon files. Now I know - no! Thank you I've accepted they're gone, it's not too much of a disaster, I can remember a lot of them, it's just the not knowing...

Hi folks,

I have a technical problem - I wrote an article in Opera Mail, decided to split it into two separate articles, so cut the second half to the clipboard and sent the first half to my publisher. I then forgot to paste the text I'd cut into a fresh mail and lost it from the clipboard. BUT: it's still there, somewhere, and it's been indexed, because when I search for it, the original mail comes up in my Sent folder. How can I access Opera's index (the "lexicon" file?) to recover the deleted text?

Thanks