Mail files being deleted

[Ray Davison]

My current laptop has acquired a new trick: all the mail files get deleted.

First some context. My mail files began life in early Netscape under
OS/2. Near the beginning I put the app on an apps partition, and the
profiles and mail files in their own trees on a data partition.

From the time that DOS got a boot manager I have never had a PC with
less than two OSs. At first I shared the profile and mail files with
two versions of OS/2. At some point I added versions of Windows, and
shared the profile and mail files with Win.

My back up system is a copy on the local machine - for that I have bat
files, and a copy on a desktop storage box - for that I use a file manager.

For about a year I have been sharing mail files between SM and TB.

Understand, when I say share, I mean the literal files, not some scheme
to sync two data bases.

Now the new "trick". My current laptop has two versions of W7. I get a
minimum of two hundred messages per day. My mail client has about a
hundred filters. I filter what I want to read, and that leaves the
inbox almost all junk.

I boot the primary W7 version, look for the mail files, and the
directory structure is intact, but there are no files in the entire tree.

I copy the contents of the backup tree to the working tree, and go to
work. I don't know of any issue with the mail files for the rest of the
time the OS is running. The files seem to disappear at boot time.

I have stopped using the primary W7 and have booted the secondary
several times, and have had no issues with the mail files.

Some good has come of this. Inspecting the mail folders has led me to
do a massive clean up of old mail.

Ideas?

TY
Ray

[Nuno Silva]

I'm afraid I have none, sadly. So this is repeatedly occuring but only
for one of the Windows installs?

If it's still happening, are SeaMonkey or Thunderbird starting
automatically on that install? What else might be running at startup?
Antivirus/security software?

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Nuno Silva