Moved a folder ... now its empty!

Dear All:
I have been looking at other posts related to my problem but none seem to reproduce exactly the same problem that I have encountered tonight...
Just a moment ago, I started reorganizing my mail folder structure in Tiger Mail (2.1). I left my computer for a moment. And when I returned, I discovered that a folder-load of mail that I had split up into two sub-folders was reporting as 'not downloaded'. Each email was still 'there' but its contents were not. All that was there was a message suggested to take the relevant account online and download the mails again. However, this is impossible.
These were not IMAP folders. THey were local folders on my Mac.
I clicked 'rebuild' on the two subfolders to see if the messages would return. They did not. Instead, they dissappeared completely and now the mailboxes in question are empty.
Does anyone know if these mails are gone for good? Unfortunately I have not backed up in a couple of weeks ...
Thanks for you help,
NiK

Hi Ian.
I don't know what makes you believe that it's "very difficult to completely erase files on a computer", but if there is no trace of those mailboxes in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/, that's precisely what happened in your case.
If the messages are from a POP account configured to leave mail on the server for some time and they are still on the server, there is a way to tell Mail to download them again. You can use the Account Info window to check whether the messages are still on the server. Choose Get Info (⌘I) from the Action menu (gear icon) located below the mailboxes list in the main Mail window -- type "Account Info" in the search field of Mail Help for more information on this feature.
If the messages are not on the server, and you don't have a backup, your only option is to try to salvage as many deleted *.emlx (Mail 2.x) or mbox (Mail 1.x) files as possible with a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage. Of these, the only one I know for sure that can recover deleted *.emlx files is FileSalvage. Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.

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