Contents of Windows Mail folders disappeared. Help please....

[RonInRI]

Hi....

I use Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium; and a POP3 email client (a small
regional company...not a well-known one). On my Windows Mail page I have
about 30 folders where I click and drag messages I want to keep long-term or
short-term.

I have a new iPod Touch and am learning how to set it up for email etc.
There is no email program set up on this iPod yet. While the iPod was
plugged into the computer, I was browsing Windows Mail menus. I opened the
tools menu and I accidently hit "Synchronize All".

All the messages in my Windows Mail folder disappeared. It's a total
mystery to me. Could they have migrated somewhere else on my computer? I
just don't have a clue. Does anyone have any ideas about this?

My hope, of course, is to find and restore these messages which were
important to me...and which I now realize I should store in a way in which
they won't be so vulnerable to accidental deletion.

All replies will be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Dave]

The View setting is probably set to "Hide read messages"
Click on View - Current View - Show all messages.
Check this in every folder...

 

[RonInRI]

Thanks, Dave....

I checked the view setting for every folder and they are all "Current
View...Show All Messages" but, alas, no messages are shown.

 

[Dave]

I don't expect the iTouch has anything to do with the problem.
In WM, do you see a folder named "Recovered Messages"? If so, see if
anything is in there.
If not, you might try Dr. Cochran's program to repair the database.
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/




--
Dave N.
MS-MVP (Mail)
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Steve Cochran]

He can also search for *.eml to see if the files are actually there somewhere.

I doubt also that the iPOD did it, but maybe its a MAC thing. <G>

steve

 

[ws]

Hi....

I use Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium; and a POP3 email client (a small
regional company...not a well-known one). On my Windows Mail page I have
about 30 folders where I click and drag messages I want to keep long-term or
short-term.

I have a new iPod Touch and am learning how to set it up for email etc.
There is no email program set up on this iPod yet. While the iPod was
plugged into the computer, I was browsing Windows Mail menus. I opened the
tools menu and I accidently hit "Synchronize All".

All the messages in my Windows Mail folder disappeared. It's a total
mystery to me. Could they have migrated somewhere else on my computer? I
just don't have a clue. Does anyone have any ideas about this?

My hope, of course, is to find and restore these messages which were
important to me...and which I now realize I should store in a way in which
they won't be so vulnerable to accidental deletion.

All replies will be very much appreciated.

Thanks.