mail.app F***K.
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- gimmejimmy0
A few years ago I attached my PDF resume to some cover letter emails and mailed them out with Mail.app then found out that Mail resized all the attachments to a thumbnail.
- utopian0
If you are using Office X or 2008 you can locate all of your shit here:
Documents > Microsoft User Data > Office X Identities or Office 2008 Identities > Main Identity > Database
- meffid0
imap from the start and compact it frequently. local copy and webhost copy, and webhost backup.
pop3 = aye mon then.
- welded0
I synced an IMAP account with a wiki we were testing out for work, then because I didn't want personal email stored on work's servers I deleted it, and that was the last I saw of about a year or so worth of email. :/
Good luck.
- Amicus0
One of my bosses thought she'd done this too. I trawled around the different libraries for a while and ended up finding about 95% of the missing shit still there.
Delete almost never equals erase in modern computing. All it normally does is mark a file as able to be overwritten, so if you have lots of free space on a disk it can be quite a while before it is truly gone.
- eating_tv0
Paint the dormatory.
- fxone0
u suck buddy
- comicsans0
What email system?
Backups?
- comicsans0
One slim chance is that your pop account was configured to download messages from the server leaving the originals behind, check if this was so.
Otherwise you have deleted the files, the data is not "gone" just no longer visible and can be recovered by data recovery software (specifically undeletion services). It is VITAL that you mimimise activity on your machine until you try this because any new files created may reuse the space occupied by your deleted files.
- MSL0
Have a look in User/Library/Mail/ There might be a folder called 'POP-youremailaddress' in there.
If there is a folder in there, copy it across to an External (so you have a backup) then chose 'Import Mailboxes...' from Mails File menu and choose that folder you just copied across.
- lambsy0
that happened to a friend once. i just made a new account with the same exact info as the accidentally deleted one, and all the mails popped back up.
ymmv.
- maikel0
as said before, it's more than likely that all your emails are stored as an encrypted creepy file somewhere in your pc/mac
if that is the case you won't even have to do a data restore. just to re-configure the path to those files.
otherwise i guess next time you'd decide to change your email configuration you will back up the previous (and working) one.
if you post your client+os we may be able to help you better.
- airey0
ahahahahah. ahh. shit sorry to hear man.
when you delete the account it bins everything hard. it won't 'pop back'. it's gone baby gone.
some recovery threads here:
http://www.google.com.au/search?…and maybe this will help?
http://www.ehow.com/how_5824651_…now go get an external drive and run time machine cause it'll happen again. i just did this 4 days ago and reading this thread i'm glad i did.
- No, you CAN undelete if you act quickly and leave the disc undisturbed (backup is better tho')comicsans
- inteliboy0
thanks guys running data rescue now.
fingers crossed. at least still have all my contacts...pretty bad software design imo - goes to show mail.app aint for the big boys like Outlook is. Also that i'm an idiot for not backing it up... Guess it's time to turn on time-machine.
- actually, this was user errormonospaced
- Outlook is 100x better than Mail. The one good Microsoft app.fyoucher1
- yeah user error indeed
sorry to hear that manMiguex
- ********0
notsointeliboy