Michael Lueck wrote:
Greetings,
I had a most odd / scary thing happen this morning. I was sending an email via a
SM POP account with a few MB of files attached to it. I remember accidentally
clicking / doing something while it was sending via my SMTP (TLS) connection...
and POOF that account's InBox went blank, and ALL sub-folders under the InBox
have vanished. No pop-up message box what so ever was seen.
There is no trace of them in the profile filesystem. This account's Inbox.sbd is
completely empty.
At the command line I changed up to the Mail directory and did "find | grep foo"
where Foo is the name of folders which existing under that account's InBox.
(Being careful to observe PrettyCase since this is a CaSe sEnSiTiVe filesystem I
am dealing with.) NO TRACE of where the folders went.
The files for the InBox are as follows:
-rw------- 1 mdlueck mdlueck 46285982 Jul 13 09:45 Inbox
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mdlueck mdlueck 2146 Jul 13 10:19 Inbox.msf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mdlueck mdlueck 67775 Jul 13 09:50 Inbox.ORIG.msf
I renamed off the folder index .msf file and rebuilt that folder's index. Though
the Inbox data file has messages in it, they do not show up.
Suggestions other than roll that account back to my most recent profile backup?
Can you fall back to 2.17.1 and try the rebuild option again? That is wildly
odd, and whatever you do, don't compact your folders or you really will lose
everything. From the file sizes I'm guessing that you somehow marked those
messages but they're still in the message file.
You might be able to run the file through a tool like awk or sed and reset the
flags which say the message is deleted. I remember doing that for some other
reason once, renamed the Inbox, ran it through awk, saved the output as Inbox
and rebuilt the index. You might scan the file with less or similar and see that
it has what you are missing.
System configuration:
Ubuntu 12.04 x64
XFS filesystem
SeaMonkey via UbuntuZilla, so the official Mozilla binaries
Sincerely,
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
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