"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
:A most peculiar thing has happened to my Mac. I switched it on this
morning
: and every single message in my Inbox, read or unread, has disappeared,
apart
: from three that arrived overnight. One of those was a total blank - no
: sender, no subject, no message. I may be able to pick them up some other
: way but has anyone any idea why this has happened? At times, I'm rather
: concerned that some of the spam I get has the names of either myself or
: people I know and email with, in the subject header. Am I being paranoid
or
: is someone 'getting in' to my computer. I have Norton running at all
times,
: BTW.
: The other filing boxes appear to have all their contents still.
:
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:
: Sacha
: www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
: South Devon
: (remove the weeds to email me)

The same thing happened to me with a pc. I am using Outlook Express and that
message box came up with "Do you want to compact messages". I accidentally
said yes and then turned the pc off. Apparently this part of OE is very
unstable and if you interrupt the compaction, all your messages disappear. I
lost all my receipts and software codes etc. Wonder if that was what
happened to you?
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