I’m back and I apologize to all for the continued silence. However, I’ve had several days where a confluence of several personal and Community Board issues have kept me from spending much time on anything except them. Then take 2-3 hours out of every day for getting Abby out….and well, tempus sure does fugit. Everyone’s efforts to assist are greatly appreciated.
In a nutshell, being so worried about losing so much mail, I kept my Super Duper drive turned off to prevent any chance of the ISP updating it. Whenever I got a chance, I did a bit of experimenting with some of Ira’s ideas (Post # 50441) and a couple of days ago I got all my mail back.
Wait for it… because this is really stupid and I am really embarrassed, but it appears to have been my fault, not the machine or software. When the two sidebars are showing (Current unread and unfiled mail in the right column, All mail in the left column), the left column has a heading “On My Mac†in which were all the missing pieces of mail.
“On My Mac†has a Show/Hide function which becomes visible when the cursor is over the spot. While experimenting a couple of days ago I discovered the Hide/Show function and clicked on Show and, poof, it’s all back. An accidental click on Hide must have got this thread rolling.
In all these years of owning Macs, I had no idea the Show/Hide option existed. As I said, I am really embarrassed and very sorry that so much energy and thinking went into solving an issue that wasn’t an issue.
However, all is not wasted….the dialogue has vastly improved my understanding of iMap and I now understand that it’s Apple Mail, not an ISP (whether POP or iMap) that allows me to save and maintain a catalogue of important mail records.
And now I shall take my
bright red face and go back to bed.
Sigh.