Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore.

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore.
Date	2014-03-11 16:38 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-03-11, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> This is my fault.  Sorry.   I see that the subject line says Inbox
> deleted.   I meant that all the mail in it was.   But later I found out
> even that's not so.  A few were left and, it seems, thousands of emails
> were deleted**. 
>
> He was attempting to delete "many", dozens or maybe hundreds of emails
> that he didn't want anymore, and when he put the cursor on Mail Trash (I
> guess that's when he got the message), it refused to delete that many.
>
> Then all of a sudden -- maybe his finger twitched -- the email he
> intended to delete and loads of other email was gone.  Maybe he had a
> visual reason to think it went to Mac Trash, or maybe he assumed it
> would be there since it wasnt' in Mail Trash. 

The messages *would* be in the Mail Trash though - *unless* he emptied
the Mail trash sometime after dragging them there.

Were all of the messages from the same email account, or was he looking
at a combined view Inbox of all email accounts? Also, were the email
account(s) in question POP or IMAP? Depending on the answers to those
two questions, very different things can happen when you delete a
message.

Regardless of any of the above though, a Time Machine backup of his
computer would have allowed him to undo that "empty trash" action and
get them all back. So if he hasn't already, I highly recommend he set up
Time Machine backups for his computer (sorry if you've already mentioned
whether he has a Time Machine backup).

>> was to go to Mail.app's 
>>View menu and select "Hide Mailboxes".  If that is what happened to your 
>>friend's mailbox, you can go to the View menu and select "Show 
>>Mailboxes".
>
> Somehow, even though it shouldn't since he says he sees a few emails in
> the inbox,  this sounds like a possibility.    I'll check.  He didn't
> Monday night, and it was just as well since I slept from 3 in the
> afternoon to 10 PM, I don't know why, since I slept Sunday night too. 
>
> Thanks. 
>
>>Fred
>
> **(He's kicking himself the past few days that he didn't make more
> mailboxes, so that much less would have been lost.  BTW, I've been
> urging him to make mailboxes and I'm the one who talked him into getting
> SuperDuper. But he's older than I am and I can't tell him what to do.
> well I couldnt' even if he were younger. ) 

Time Machine would have saved his butt on this one. That's what you
should convince him to do, IMO.

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JR

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Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-06 13:12 -0500
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-06 13:29 -0500
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-06 18:46 +0000
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 18:49 +0000
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:29 -0500
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-06 13:56 -0500
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-06 20:26 +0000
        Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:03 -0500
          Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-08 15:16 +0000
          Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-08 18:02 +0000
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-07 09:02 +1100
        Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:21 -0500
          Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-03-09 10:46 +0100
            Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 18:06 -0400
              Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-09 22:44 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 20:19 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 00:35 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 22:13 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 15:18 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-10 14:19 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 18:52 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-11 02:10 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-11 02:00 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-11 10:57 +1100
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-11 01:59 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-11 22:36 +1100
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-11 12:26 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-12 07:09 +1100
                Google Groups (was Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-11 17:08 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-10 17:18 -0400
            Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 18:10 -0400
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-03-07 16:03 -0600
        Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 18:03 -0400
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-06 19:03 +0000
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:19 -0500
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-08 15:52 +0000
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-06 22:32 +0000
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-03-08 22:49 -0500
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-11 02:13 -0400
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-11 16:38 +0000

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