Jens Hatlak wrote:
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
My wife has experienced the same issue twice now. First time she lost
the entire Inbox contents, this time we had a real-time backup package
running, which gave me a restore. I had to delete both the Inbox and
Inbox.msf files from the profile, restore the Inbox from backup and then
restart SM.
Today's scenario: She had recieved 6 new messages, and had some
15-20-odd already present in the Inbox. She read the first new one in
the preview pane, pressed Delete, acknowledged the 'do you really want
to' dialog, and her Inbox emptied, with a co-incident status message at
the bottom that her Deleted folder was finishing compacting. Go figure.
I've been following SM for years as many here have, and it's only after
v2.1+ this has happened. I've stressed to her about making sure the
message itself has focus as opposed to the Inbox in the mailbox tree
pane, and we'll see what happens.
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