On Friday, October 5, 2012 8:55:16 AM UTC-5, Daniel wrote:
> Tom wrote:
>
> > I should add that I subsequently ran a 'chkdsk' on my system to see if hard
> > drive errors could be to blame. Nothing showed up; no system events or any
> > other indicators of a processing error. Just 2000 missing emails / 50+
> > megs of a file gone.
>
>
> Tom, did you bother doing an operating system search for "inbox"
> (without the quotes) to see if you might have additional SeaMonkey
> inbox's that have become lost to SeaMonkey??
>
> --
> Daniel
Yes, I did -- all my other "Inbox"s are fine (7 others), and the Inbox file for
that email account was the only one gone (and was not anywhere else on my hard
disk). I should also add that it has happened again -- just to that email box,
just as before. This is the primary mail account (and the directory named
"mail" under the "Mail" directory in the profile under "Documents and Settings".
I was not aware of the right-click "Properties" feature to rebuild the index,
or I would have tried that before I closed Seamonkey, but I do remember that,
just like this most recent time, the "inbox.msf" file was only several K, which
I knew meant the index was shot as well. That was even BEFORE I closed
Seamonkey, so it seems unlikely that an index re-build would have accomplished
anything at that point.
Where I had guessed 50 meg, before, the file was most likely more like 100 meg
or more, given the size of my other "inbox" files.
This time before the contents disappeared, a message came up saying that the
trash folder could not be emptied -- I had just done an "Alt-F-Y" to delete
junk emails I had just trashed. The message went away quickly -- with no input
from me, and nothing was visible in my mail window ("Inbox" was highlighted at
the time). Again, as before, all other mail boxes looked (and continue to
look) normal -- and are seeming to behave normally as well.
Just -- I only have 10, just downloaded emails in that inbox, where it have
built back up to 30 or 40 after that last 'purge'.
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