This morning at 7:30 I has to test the effectiveness of my back up drive software. Most of the time I'm quite annoyed at how it interferes in my jumping around from program to program, checking 10 email accounts every 5 minutes. I turn it off a lot until "system idle." This morning, when I booted up, I let it do it's magic for the first 20 minutes and catch up from yesterday. "Back up complete" it told me; whatever that means. I have not had a lot of success with back up drives. I figured this one was just another placebo; until this morning.
5:15 a.m. - all is well. Backed up and plowing through the inbox. Suddenly, without warning something went terribly wrong - the inbox was blank. Not only was the inbox blank, but all sub-folders had very few messages in them. Thunderbird version 2.0.0.24 is my email client of choice. 3.0 wasn't any good - at least not yet. Jumped back to 2.0.0.24 and all is well -- or it WAS well.
Some panic. I had done a lot of email filing last night and my inbox was down to 225 or so messages. This is truly my inbox, my to do list - the tasks in progress.
OK - don't panic, I thought. Check the sent file. That was all there - so I could somewhat rebuild the inbox from the sent file because I reply to each request. Although attachments were missing.
I'm on Windows - reboot. Doesn't reboot make all the bad things go away. REBOOT, REBOOT. No luck. The sub folders were back, but the inbox was still lonely and empty.
Next, check the Mozilla forums. Surely I'm not alone with this problem. Surely I'm not unique. I'm not. There are many unhappy and extremely distraught people using Thunderbird, people with empty inboxes, disappearing mail and the like. Although this was briefly consoling, that level of comfort plummeted when I read through and there were no answers posted. There were only the "I have this problem to" buttons that had been clicked on by many in the same situation. But the replies and solutions were missing - just like our mail.
What to do? By now, it's 7:55. Time to take my daughter to the bus - fresh air.
8:05 - I have a back up drive! It was backing up. I hadn't stopped it. But did it really do what it was supposed to do? Did it BACK UP everything leading up to the hour before "the incident?" Only one way to find out - go look.
8:06 - it is there. Copy/paste - that should do it.
8:08 - it worked! Now time to load the inbox.
10:30 - It took two hours to bring in the back ed up mail since it dated back to when the back up plan was initiated on the external hard drive. September - I can handle that. September is when I replaced the placebo drive and software with my new HERO drive and software! WOO HOO! My Western Digital external hard drive running Memeo WD Anywhere Back Up saved the day! I had to delete close to 2500 emails, but it was worth it. I'm back to where I was - almost like a time machine without having to restore EVERYTHING - just the one piece I needed.
I need some chocolate and I think my computer would like a scan before bed.
Thanks, Western Digital & Memeo for a great product and software, and Linda Zimmer for the "talk down" this morning.
Yaps I always make an back plan before starting anything and save all the things in backup as I move forward towards any progress..It always good to make back plan before starting anything..
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