Hi, everyone. This is a great list and I am hoping that someone can help me recover missing inbox mail on one of two computers. I use The Bat on two computers, a desktop and a laptop. The two computers are connected on a network through a wireless router. The Bat was originally installed on the desktop. This summer, I installed The Bat on the laptop but set up account preferences such that all mail data remains on the desktop. In other words, both the laptop and the desktop read, download and edit mail from files that reside on the desktop. Essentially, the desktop functions as a mail server for both the desktop and the laptop.
I have 13 mail accounts and all appear on both machines. My primary account, the one that I use for personal correspondence to family and friends, has about 2100 messages in it and occupies about 450,000MB of space. Yesterday, something happened during an operation (either download, or exit) that resulted in all mail disappearing from the inbox of my primary e-mail account on both machines, except that one message did remain on the desktop. When I tried to open the message, the "maintenance center" opened up and prompted me for repair of the mail accounts. I selected the inbox for the account with missing mail, and after the process ran, the missing mail--apparently all of it--returned. I was not so fortunate with the laptop. I tried to use the maintenance center to restore the lost mail, but the process finished without recovering any mail. When I look in Account/properties, the pop up dialogue box automatically points to the same data file that is used by the desktop; however, there is something going on that is keeping me from seeing the e-mail, even though that same file does allow me to view the e-mail on the desktop. Can anyone give me a step-by-step procedure that will restore the missing mail on to my desktop? Thanks, in advance, for your help. -- Avram Sacks Using The Bat ver. 4.0.20 on XP Professional SP2 on both laptop and desktop ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.38.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
