Mail disappearing

Hi there (accidentally posted this in 10.4 and will also search this forum better....)
I tried deleting some mail the other day, changed my mind before I hit the erase button and so then tried to select all and paste them back into my in box. Trouble is, the box is showing that there are all the messages in there, and I'm still receiving email into that box, because the count is going up, but there's nothing in there, nothing in the trash and nothing anywhere else (other mail boxes).
Also, a few weeks ago one of my mail accounts just stop receiving emails. We had a power black out while I was at work and when I got home and restarted mail, it came up with an error message about the mailbox (account?) being locked.
Can anyone help???
Thanks!

You’re welcome.
If Show Package Contents isn’t an option, it means Inbox.mbox is a normal file, not a package. The name of that file should be just mbox. I have no idea what may have caused this to happen.
Select the Inbox.mbox file within the INBOX folder that’s on the Desktop, do File > Get Info (⌘I) and change the name of the file to just mbox (what it should have been in the first place) or to something else that doesn’t have any suffix -- you cannot remove the suffix in the Finder by normal means because that causes the Finder to hide the suffix instead of renaming the file.
You should now be able to import your messages back into Mail doing File > Import Mailboxes and following the instructions to import the INBOX folder that’s on the Desktop. Choose Other / Standard mbox as the data format, so that Mail looks at the mbox and Incomning_Mail files only (which is where all your messages are stored), and ignores the other files in the package.

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