Emails seem to be lost or deleted after search

[Kally]

I performed a search on a specific mail folder (I organize my folders by client) yesterday and, as usual, the results were in my search box. I then ran a couple more searches on the same client folder and checked the box to delete previous results. A little later I went back to the client folder to look for one of the emails that I saw in a earlier search and I couldn't find it. It looks like the emails from the searches were not only deleted from the search folder when I did a new search. But were deleted entirely.

Do you think they are just hidden somewhere? Would compression help. or deleting the .ini file or other files? I see those as common solutions to different problems, but am not really sure which solution to try.

On another note, is there a way to append a date to automatic backups, so they don't over write each other?

Thank you!

[Eric]

Hi Kally,

I performed a search on a specific mail folder (I organize my folders by client) yesterday and, as usual, the results were in my search box. I then ran a couple more searches on the same client folder and checked the box to delete previous results. A little later I went back to the client folder to look for one of the emails that I saw in a earlier search and I couldn't find it. It looks like the emails from the searches were not only deleted from the search folder when I did a new search. But were deleted entirely.

Never seen it happen on my system when performing a search, so I guess something else is going on.

Do you think they are just hidden somewhere? Would compression help. or deleting the .ini file or other files? I see those as common solutions to different problems, but am not really sure which solution to try.

Are you sure nothing is typed in the Quick Search
Sometimes it happens to me too, so I don't see all the messages I want.
Clearing the Quick Search solves it.

On another note, is there a way to append a date to automatic backups, so they don't over write each other?

Maybe through a script, but that's not my expertise.
If you want to keep it simple, let a third party backup app do the job for you.
This way you can obtain the same result.

If your problem isn't what I wrote down, please report back, so we can look at other possibilities.

[Kally]

I did have something typed in Quick Search, but it was just part of the email address, so all of the emails I would have been looking for would have showed up with that quick search anyway.

I think I will try a search again, but I'll copy the emails to another folder in case it happens again. I'll report back on that.

Thanks for the input on the backups. Do you know of a good backup? I don't like the one I'm using.

[Eric]

I did have something typed in Quick Search, but it was just part of the email address, so all of the emails I would have been looking for would have showed up with that quick search anyway.

I think I will try a search again, but I'll copy the emails to another folder in case it happens again. I'll report back on that.

Just to make sure clear the Quick Search.

Thanks for the input on the backups. Do you know of a good backup? I don't like the one I'm using.

My pleasure Kally.
Cobian backup seems to be well on demand.