Jeff Dunstan wrote:
Hello, Whenever I first delete an unwanted email from my SeaMonkey Inbox a popup asked if I now want to compact the deletion. Have always closed/cancelled this box until today. This time I hit the OK by mistake and ZAP, my entire Inbox was emptied !!
Maybe it only seemed like everything was gone. Did you try to switch to a different folder and then revisit your inbox?
The issue with compacting (and the reason for not to have it run automatically all the time) is that it can destroy the current view. If you for example are viewing a saved search folder and compacting runs, the thread pane may be broken until you switch to another folder and back. This is because compacting unsets the "new" flag of messages, i.e. after compacting, all messages lose their "new" state.
The workaround for me was to increase the auto-compacting limit (see Preferences, Mail & Newsgroups, Network & Storage, Disk Space).
Can it's contents be recovered?
Only if it's a view issue as described above. If the compacting actually deleted information, it is lost.
BTW, nowhere is it mentioned/hinted-at that 'compact' means erase everything !!
Because it's not supposed to do anything beyond deleting messages for good that have been scheduled for deletion.
HTH Jens -- Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/> SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
