Vanished mail
Posted: November 21st, 2017, 5:38 am
MacBook Pro running El Capitan and using the standard Mail program.
Suddenly yesterday morning I discovered that email messages saved in a sub-folder had disappeared. A little later the folder in which that sub-folder sat had also lost all its messages, several hundred in all. There are other sub-folders in it which still exist but are also now empty. I have several other folders which do not SEEM (at present) to have been affected.
Does anyone have any idea how I can recover these, please? They do not seem to be in trash. And of course I now live in fear that my other folders will also gradually empty themselves!
I do back up using Time Machine and imagined that if I restored to a point before the disappearance I might find them - and refile before they disappear again, but I do not seem to have grasped how to restore because after waiting ages I found the MacBook just how I left it, i.e. looking like it had this morning whereas I wanted it like yesterday morning. Evidently I am getting this wrong and advice would be appreciated, please.
Mark
Suddenly yesterday morning I discovered that email messages saved in a sub-folder had disappeared. A little later the folder in which that sub-folder sat had also lost all its messages, several hundred in all. There are other sub-folders in it which still exist but are also now empty. I have several other folders which do not SEEM (at present) to have been affected.
Does anyone have any idea how I can recover these, please? They do not seem to be in trash. And of course I now live in fear that my other folders will also gradually empty themselves!
I do back up using Time Machine and imagined that if I restored to a point before the disappearance I might find them - and refile before they disappear again, but I do not seem to have grasped how to restore because after waiting ages I found the MacBook just how I left it, i.e. looking like it had this morning whereas I wanted it like yesterday morning. Evidently I am getting this wrong and advice would be appreciated, please.
Mark