Dear Rick, Your intuition is correct: I did not start a new database, which would have been quite obvious. Nor do I think I started an old backup, I only have one PowerMail Files folder on my HD.
I am quite annoyed at myself that I had not set up a backup routine for my email after I received a new logic board and HD (all under warranty) last December. I'll guess the one thing to do is immediately creating a daily backup routine with Retrospect for my Mail folder. I have some for DT databases and all documents, but not yet for mail... Thanks for your suggestions! Willem > Hi Willem; > > Glad to have you back, sorry to hear about your trouble. > Since I have no knowledge of databases and suchlike, the only thing > that > I can think of is that maybe when you returned to using Powermail > after > your little flirtation with Mail, you inadvertently started a new PM > database. Then, when the crash happened and PM had to ask where the > files were, you pointed it toward the old one. > > This is most likely not the case (since you would surely have noticed, > when the new database was created, that it was empty as opposed to > containing all your old email!) > > However, is it possible that you have a backup copy of the PM Files > folder? And that you have recently been using this backup (without > realising it) rather than the original one? In that case the same > thing > could happen: you think that you are using database A when you are > actually using database B; PM crashes, asks for the location of the > db; > you naturally show it database A... which in fact hasn't been used > since > 26 Jan. > > Highly speculative, but I'm just throwing ideas out, more or less > at random. > At least we can maybe eliminate one possibility? > > HTH > Rick
