Mysterious digital phenomena

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:03 am

I checked my e-mail the other day (something I do very frequently), and found my inbox completely empty, my other folders out of order (or rather, alphabetically ordered and placed after the default folders), and my mail sorting rules disabled.

Norton AV and AdAware found nothing.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:56 am

E-mail program crashed and corrputed your profile? It's happened to me before. *shrug*

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Wed May 25, 2005 5:37 am

haXXOred

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Wed May 25, 2005 7:31 am

I doubt its hacked ... what DC said ...

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:19 pm

you may be able to repair the damage to get your inbox back. what mail program is this btw?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:27 pm

If it's Outlook, create a new PST file and just import all the stuff from the old one.

If it's Thunderbird, go to C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\Mozilla Thunderbird\profiles and rename the folder in there (add an "x" in front of the name or something). Then re-launch Thunderbird. It will create a new profile. Close Thunderbird and copy over the contents of the renamed folder's Inbox subfolder to your newly automatically-created profile folder.

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Wed May 25, 2005 10:09 pm

Dang, I neglected to specify the client! It's Outlook Express. I originally put "Outlook Express" in the topic title, but I forgot to compensate when I changed it.

Thanks!

I agree that it's likely some form of data corruption, rather than hacking. That makes sense.

Thanks for the tip, DCrazy, I'll do that.

Who else here hates computers?

And yet they're so darn cool...

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Thu May 26, 2005 3:04 am

!User Error! = people who hate computers