Interviewed by CNN on 8/1/2010 21:21, Phillip Jones told the world: > RGrannus wrote: >> Some older emails that I wanted to keep were deleted today when the keep >> for so many days option was reset. Is there any way to recover them? > If you actually emptied the trash (waste basket for PC's-I guess) no! > > if they were just moved to trash but not emptied then open Trash folder > and pull them out. > Actually, even if they were double-deleted (that is, deleted from the Trash by using the "delete" command, but *not* by using the "empty trash" command) it might, I said MIGHT be possible to recover them... by manually editing the Trash file with a text editor and some knowledge of internal structure of MBOX files.
In the same way, it *might* be possible to undelete them from the original mail folder as long as it hasn't been compacted yet. I did it a couple times, so I can say it's possible. But it's not exactly easy. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #154: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish (from most tunefs man pages) * TagZilla 0.0661 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org on Seamonkey 2.0 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
