Lost folders in mail

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that seems to be a nasty bug in mobileme. I've seen some reports about this matter from people who suffered similar problems. what seems to have happened is the following. there were some major problems with mobileme servers (you probably know about that) and your mail data on servers got corrupted. in particular your custom folders disappeared. Now, mobileme is an IMAP so once you connect to it it syncs your computer with server and since the folders were deleted from server it deletes them from your computer. nice. My suggestion is this. start mail while not connected to internet and archive all your mobileme mailboxes. Just copy them over to local mailboxes. they'll be safe there at even if you sync with mobileme later. then hope that apple fixes this mess eventually.

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You can turn mail off in the settings but then you can't use it for anything, including the "test" that you want to perform.
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When I use Mail 4.2 and check the number of messages in a folder I see a different number from what displays when I log in on the web at www.me.com.
I checked under Library\Mail and my account for some folders and the Messages folder under a specific mailbox does not display any messages either. Therefore, it seems that the Mobile Me web mail is not giving a true representation.
I have also noticed that my Sync settings for Mobile Me keep getting unchecked when I look at those settings. I have to re-enable this on a regular basis. Could this have anything to do with my problem? I think this started after I enabled my Google account to sync with my address book and also iCal.
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As I said I thought I had solved this problem, but apparently I still have this situation. If I set up my .Mac mail account in a Mozilla application I see not only the current folders but also the names of any previous folders that were used on .Mac. I know the profile in Mozilla is not the issue, it's the .Mac account. Therefore, how can all these old folders on .Mac be permanently removed? They must be hiding somewhere on the server but how would this be tracked down? Would it have to be done by Apple? I'm talking about 25 folders that are affected, i.e., no longer used or resident on the account.
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First, did the data actually get deleted, or is it still there somewhere? Try searching the drive for some of the documents, perhaps it's all just in another folder on that drive.
If it's truly gone, it's impossible for us to say what might have happened to make it unrecoverable. Perhaps someone using the computer used Secure Empty Trash, or securely erased empty space on the hard drive. Perhaps it was overwritten by other stuff before you noticed. It's possible the hard drive is starting to fail, though this seems like an awfully specific problem for that to be the issue.
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You should be aware that no computer is safe. All computers rely on hardware that may fail and software that can have bugs. You absolutely MUST maintain a good set of frequently-updated backups... no fewer than two full backups of anything you don't want to lose.
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Hi Ernie.
Thanks very much for the help.
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A little pic to show what I mean:
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The same happens to everyone.
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