Mail quit-erased account info and emails
When I was trying to send an email, Mail quit. Didn't think much of it...just a gliche. When re-opened, I noticed ALL my emails were gone and upon further investigation, noticed that my account info had been replaced with a .mac account that I have never opened. Also, there was some weird "delivered" folder that showed up in the mailboxes, but had nothing in it.
Since then I've restored the accounts and working on trying to import my emails...
I really have no idea what happened, but if anyone has figured this one out, please let me know....I can't have this happen again.
Mac OS 10.4.4, Mail 2.0.5
What is your hard drive capacity and available free space?
If you don't have adequate free hard drive space required for OS X to function properly, corruption or loss of application preference files can occur and all account information and general Mail.app preferences is stored in the Mail.app preference file.
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