Have just got home from work and am feeling a little bit run-down and under the weather. I'm also pretty stupid when it comes to Mail.
Anyway, so I just get this email from a friend which reads as follows:
(thought the geniuses here could make a far better go at this than me)
My immediate thought is that he's trashed his inbox... 😱
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Hi Blue
Hi there I've got a weird techie query. If you could have a look at it when you've got some time, I'd be very grateful for any suggestions or things to try and restore my missing emails.
Background:
Today I was forwarding 5 emails from my old virgin.net a/c (via mail2web) to my new broadband a/c and new mac. So they just came in to my mac email system as regular fwd's
At the time I remember one seemed to take ages to forward from mail2web so went back to the original email and I clicked on the forward button again. Anyway two versions came through. Fine. So I tried to delete one copy of the duplicate one.
This is the problem:
Sort of remember it saying do you really want to delete. Pressed yes - and the whole bloody general XXXXXX folder list was deleted. eek i.e all the incoming emails in that folder going back to Jan when i got the new email system up & running.
Couldn't select "undo" in the edit menu - it wasn't an option. Nothing in the email trash or email junk folders either. Nor in the general trash on my desktop.
The weird thing is the XXXXXXXX incoming folder still shows the number 4 in bold, in the heading - i.e telling me the other 4 forwarded emails are still to be opened - but when you click on the folder to open it - there is nothing there.
Even weirder, since then 2 more email have arrived at the the XXXXXXX incoming folder so it now shows 6 in bold - but again when you actually open the general XXXXXXX folder it's still empty.
The same folder icon is clear and all the enclosed folders are blue - don't know whether or not this is relevant.
The good news is the other sub-folders are still there (for 6 separate client folders), My general non-XXXXXXX in box, is still OK and ditto, my non-XXXXXX out box is OK.
But ideally I need the general XXXXXXX in-box folder restored.
I've already tried restarting and running disk utility but no change.
Personally i blame President Bush and the new Pope so I'm going to release some pent up frustration by going swimming.
Any thoughts?
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Anyway, so I just get this email from a friend which reads as follows:
(thought the geniuses here could make a far better go at this than me)
My immediate thought is that he's trashed his inbox... 😱
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Hi Blue
Hi there I've got a weird techie query. If you could have a look at it when you've got some time, I'd be very grateful for any suggestions or things to try and restore my missing emails.
Background:
Today I was forwarding 5 emails from my old virgin.net a/c (via mail2web) to my new broadband a/c and new mac. So they just came in to my mac email system as regular fwd's
At the time I remember one seemed to take ages to forward from mail2web so went back to the original email and I clicked on the forward button again. Anyway two versions came through. Fine. So I tried to delete one copy of the duplicate one.
This is the problem:
Sort of remember it saying do you really want to delete. Pressed yes - and the whole bloody general XXXXXX folder list was deleted. eek i.e all the incoming emails in that folder going back to Jan when i got the new email system up & running.
Couldn't select "undo" in the edit menu - it wasn't an option. Nothing in the email trash or email junk folders either. Nor in the general trash on my desktop.
The weird thing is the XXXXXXXX incoming folder still shows the number 4 in bold, in the heading - i.e telling me the other 4 forwarded emails are still to be opened - but when you click on the folder to open it - there is nothing there.
Even weirder, since then 2 more email have arrived at the the XXXXXXX incoming folder so it now shows 6 in bold - but again when you actually open the general XXXXXXX folder it's still empty.
The same folder icon is clear and all the enclosed folders are blue - don't know whether or not this is relevant.
The good news is the other sub-folders are still there (for 6 separate client folders), My general non-XXXXXXX in box, is still OK and ditto, my non-XXXXXX out box is OK.
But ideally I need the general XXXXXXX in-box folder restored.
I've already tried restarting and running disk utility but no change.
Personally i blame President Bush and the new Pope so I'm going to release some pent up frustration by going swimming.
Any thoughts?
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