From: TheNewGWTC@n375c4p3.n37   
      
   Jeff Thompson wrote:   
   > I'm using Netscape 7.01. Yesterday, about 500 e-mail messages   
   > disappeared from my e-mail inbox. They ranged in age from recent to   
   > going back several years. I had read them, but not deleted them. I   
   > wanted to save them. First, I could see all the messages listed, but   
   > when I clicked on one of them to open it up and read it, they wouldn't   
   > open. So I tried renaming the inbox.msf as something like inbox.old.msf,   
   > so that the inbox would "rebuild." I also tried compacting the inbox   
   > folder. But somehow I did something wrong, because all I have now is an   
   > inbox with two e-mail in it, one sent yesterday and one send today and   
   > none of the 500 e-mails that used to be there. I tried renaming   
   > inbox.old.msf as inbox.msf to see if that would bring them back. Nope.   
   > Using Windows 2000.   
   >   
   > Any ideas where the e-mail went and how to get them back?   
   > Could there be a virus in one of the old e-mail, or perhaps a corrupted   
   > e-mail amongst those 500? I do have Norton Anti Virus with updated   
   > definitions and it is enabled to scan incoming and outgoing e-mail.   
   >   
   >   
   > Thanks for any help offered.   
   >   
   > Jeff Thompson   
   >   
   the *.msf files are only index files.  They tell the program which way   
   the columns should be sorted, which are labeled, flagged, etc.  They   
   do not contain any mail.  When you renamed it, did you do so with the   
   program closed?  Try deleting the *.msf file with the program closed.   
     Any changes? Also, check under View, Messages, All.  Does that make   
   any differences?   
      
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