If you have access to a design engineering office, see if they have anyone who works with 'strain gages'. Strain gage technicians and engineeres routinely solder tiny conections, sometimes under a low power microscope. A special soldering gun is used. Make sure that the soldering gun is electrically isolated and grounded to preclude imparting a damaging charge to the pins. (I am trained to apply strain gages.) The next source is an engineering college that offers strain gage application courses. There will be experts among the staff. A third source is a solid state chip design group. They may have access to specialized equipment. However, at this writing, I have little hope that you can recover the data. It all depends on the damage and where the breaks are. The damage can extend into the packaging. If I understand thumb drives, I think there is an internal, very small 'keep alive' battery that maintains the state of the memory junctions. If this battery is damaged or the connections to it interrupted, then all data is lost. If the 'die' (chip) has been cracked or over strained, then it is lost. This damage can not be seen as it will under the potting compound. If the leads have been broken flush with the packaging (potting) material, then there is little hope in making a solder connection. Before you give up, examine the thumb drive under a low power (10 to 20x) inspection microscope. Look at the leads. Hopefully, these are not broken, but misshapen.

Ivamae - You can go to Mail2Web and delete it from there. Once you delete it, it is GONE! You can see who it is from, etc., on the M2W site - and you can even open it there if you want. It will still take a long time. You will need to enter your email address and your email password to get to you emails. Mail 2 Web is a good site to check your email when you are traveling. You can delete the emails or leave them. If you leave them, they will go into your inbox when you get home. Here is a link that might be useful: Mail 2 Web

I haven't had adobe for years - pdf xchange had been doing all I needed it to do. But within the last week, I received (email attachments) documents I needed to print for DH, a state stream survey of 6 pages, and a map one page. The stream survey would print the last page, hang up on the other 5. I forwarded it to a friend at his office and it printed for him. I could read both attachments, couldn't print and properties didn't show any restrictions on reproducing them. The map would print, but in mini and nothing I could find to try would adjust the size which didn't show enough detail reduced to be helpful. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling pdf xchange. Material was sent to me from same company, same computer as we've been receiving from for years. I downloaded free Adobe reader and had no problems printing the documents...Can't imagine what changed, have Win 7, IE10, updated Firefox as backup.

I found a place that said I had to check it to be blocked either for mail or news....I checked news, then it let me uncheck it for mail...so now I am able to send myself mail again. I use that a lot to mail myself pictures from my phone. Looks like I got it figured out.. Don't have a clue what the "news" thing is that I won't be able to get anymore...lol patti