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On 31/12/05 9:33, in article , "Kate
Morgan" wrote:

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.

Same thing here a few days ago, I was in a hurry and my machine was slow
in closing down, next day the whole inbox had gone, Luckily I have a
techie daughter who got them all back for me, I can ask her how she did
it if you would like,

I'd be interested to know, Kate and thank you. But it's not a matter of
urgency because I can retrace them on the server by the looks of it.
However, when I shut down last night, all appeared normal. I came out of
the email program, clicked on shut down, clicked on the 'yes' bit of 'are
you sure you want to turn off your computer?' and that was that - same as
usual, in fact. It seems to be one of those mysterious 'things' that happen
sometimes to computers. Recently someone I trust sent me a link to an
interesting site but when I tried to use it, not only would it not work but
it sent my computer back to all its default settings and I had to re-set all
my own custom requirements. V. strange.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)


O.K. Sacha, I will ask her when I see her just out of interest,not that
I understand half of it :-))