Maybe your first message is just slow for you to see. I certainly saw it.
I don't know what happened to you, but good for you for knowing how to recover a backup! That's a helpful tool for all of us to know.
I have found that sometimes when something I expect will happen but it doesn't work, that I've screwed up the keyboard commands. SKY has so many of the! The go-back-to-the-full-index command is so close to the update the autocomplete file command... I goof those up a lot.
The good news is you got your index back.
Hear, hear!
Deborah