On 12/18/2010 03:04 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 12/18/2010 11:16 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 12/17/2010 02:40 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: >>> ..right in front of my eyes, as my fingers were resting on the keyboard! >>> >>> I selected several messages in my Inbox, planning to move them to >>> another folder... my fingers were resting on ctrl/alt/shift area (left) >>> and arrow keys (right). Suddenly the selected messages disappeared as if >>> I pressed Shift+Delete >>> >>> I've already checked Archives and searched entire Local Folders -- those >>> messages are gone >>> >>> >>> What the hell could've happened? >>> >> A couple of things. First, is your inbox IMAP or POP3, or do you have a >> SPAM filter set, or other automatic filters, or possibly your index is >> corrupt. Your inbox is composed of two file, Inbox and Inbox.msf. The >> Inbox is the place where the email is stored. When you receive an email, >> that email is added to the end of Inbox. When you delete an email, the >> email is just marked as delete, it is not physically removed until you >> compact the file. The Inbox.msf is an index, and this is where you see >> the files in Thunderbird. You can physically delete the msf file, but I >> would do this when thunderbird is not running. The restart Thunderbird. >> If you have not compacted in a while it might be useful to do this. WRT: >> IMAP/POP3. With POP3, when you retrieve your email from the server it is >> physically downloaded to your system and deleted from the server, but >> with IMAP, your email will remain on the server until you either delete >> it or move it to another folder. >> > Thanks Jerry > I've already recovered the mails using Thunderbird-Reset-Status [1] and > installed ConfirmBeforeDelete addon [2] to lessen the chances of it > happening again.. although I still have a suspicion that it might, since > I know I didn't press Shift+Del > > > [1] http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/misc/index.html > [2] https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/index-en.html Good. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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