Recent content by seekir

I can feel your sympathy. I can't claim to be "prudent," and have lost all my archived emails due to a series of incorrect choices including not having a fail-safe for said choices. I assume you don't agree with my assessment of the Mail application as it was conceived for OS 10.4, and thank you...

I think pretty much everyone who owns a mac or PC understands that backing up files is prudent, and that digital files can be lost in the event of drive failures or other catastrophic events affecting digital storage devices. I also think it's safe to say that very few mac users realize that the...

Nope, this doesn't seem to work if the account has been deleted when changing ISP's/email addresses. Only the new POP account appears in the library folder. Having been with the same ISP and using one email address for over a decade I was unfamiliar with the mac Mail account management process...

I wish this were true. At least in OS 10.4.11, the messages in the library file sent/received by Mail apparently disappear when an account is deleted. I've never changed ISP's before and didn't realize my archived emails would be deleted with the account. I suspect this feature has caused...