Hello Stan, On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:10:04 -0500 GMT (22/05/2004, 00:10 +0700 GMT), Stan Robins wrote:
SR> These were messages that I had read. They did have any filter SR> associated with them. Did or did not? From the context, I guess that you mean they did *not* have a filter associated with them. SR> This phenomenon of messages disappearing had happened at least once SR> before recently. But I am sure it didn't affect all my Read messages. You mean it is not reliably reproducable? That opens another can of worms. Because I was of the opinion that somehow, a stray filter (I would now guess: a Read filter) was the culprit. But then the effect should be there every time. >> Do you purge & compress on exit? If so, turn that off for now, at >> least the messages will still be there. SR> As noted, the Inbox was set to purge and compress. That has been SR> turned off. OK. So, when the messages are gone, they should still be there when you Browse Deleted, and you can also reinstate them by hitting <del> on them in that folder. >> Open TB and see whether the messages are in the folder that now has >> the copied message.tbb. If you don't see anything, try "browse >> deleted". SR> In her case, I think it is too late to try this remedy. Noted for SR> future reference, though. Thanks. It's more like a step in diagnosis rather than a remedy. I wanted to know whether the messages are really gone from the base, or whether they are not displayed for some reason. SR> I am going to check her settings and turn off purging and compressing SR> for now. OK. Let me know something: Have you every copied any filters or other parts of TB between your cmpauter and your daughter's, manually or electronically? SR> I should pare down my filters. Many are obsolete. I do use Read SR> message filters more than any other. It's my guess that it's a stray Read filter. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Reden ist Schweigen, Silber ist Gold. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.11 Beta/6 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
