When booting for the day, all contents of Mail disappear second time

When I signed on today, mail was essentially gone. I was asked if I wanted to learn about mail and I answered no. Then opened it and was asked for a password for my .MAC account, which I haven't used for years. Configuration was gone. This happened last week and I reconfigured but lost all of the folder contents. Even tried from my backup hard drive and there was nothing there.
In addition today, my desktop had been reorganized.
I'm the only user.
Is anything retrievable and can this be prevented. I've been happy with it for several years.

I don't use Mail, so I'm just using this to bump your msg up the line - hopefully someone who does can come to the rescue.
I do use Outlook, however, and I know that there is an option to download headers only - is there something like this in Mail?
Good luck - hopefully someone will respond (sometimes people just tend to skip over items with long message headers)...
Clinton

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