Thanks to all. Vaporized/Gone are the operative terms here. Bummer !! But, it won't happen again thanks to the additional know-how I've gleaned from the replies here. I tried all the suggested methods w/ negative results, The Input Box/Folder is kaput. Then did Jens 'Preferences, Mail & Newsgroups, Network & Storage, Disk Space' suggetion, and unchecked the 'Compact Folders' box so it won't happen again. Live n' Learn JeffD
----------------------------------------------------------- On Sep 1, 11:45 am, Jens Hatlak <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > 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
