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Renaming a Mailbox deleted all of its subfolders
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<blockquote data-quote="adrianzag" data-source="post: 950287" data-attributes="member: 133111"><p>Hi there,</p><p>Am new here so please excuse any dumb</p><p>Am feeling a cold chill up my spine, I really hope someone can help?!</p><p>I was renaming my mailbox folders in 'Mail'.</p><p>I successfully renamed about ten of them without any problems.</p><p>Then I tried to rename one mailbox called 'Uni' into 'uni' (lower case).</p><p>I then got a warning dialog telling me that ''The mailbox folder 'Uni' has not been renamed properly''. I clicked 'OK'.</p><p>I saw that there were now 2 mailbox folders, one named 'Uni' (upper case) which had been greyed out 'phantom-like', and one named 'uni' (lower case) which was still in the normal blue.</p><p>When I clicked on the phantom 'Uni' mailbox I saw that it was completely empty. So I deleted it, thinking that since it was empty, this was not an issue.</p><p>However, I was then mortified to see that that in the 'uni' folder (lower case) all of its subfolders, (there used to be 3 of them) which had contained hundreds of very important emails, did not exist any more!</p><p>When I tried to back up and 'undo' the rename, there was no undo option.</p><p>Does anyone out there know what I can do to get my subfolder emails back? I have searched for them on my entire system but they are nowhere to be seen <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />(((</p><p>Any help would be a most appreciated</p><p></p><p>Yours (in a cold sweat!)</p><p></p><p>Adrian <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Oops.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Oops:" title="Oops :Oops:" data-shortname=":Oops:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="adrianzag, post: 950287, member: 133111"] Hi there, Am new here so please excuse any dumb Am feeling a cold chill up my spine, I really hope someone can help?! I was renaming my mailbox folders in 'Mail'. I successfully renamed about ten of them without any problems. Then I tried to rename one mailbox called 'Uni' into 'uni' (lower case). I then got a warning dialog telling me that ''The mailbox folder 'Uni' has not been renamed properly''. I clicked 'OK'. I saw that there were now 2 mailbox folders, one named 'Uni' (upper case) which had been greyed out 'phantom-like', and one named 'uni' (lower case) which was still in the normal blue. When I clicked on the phantom 'Uni' mailbox I saw that it was completely empty. So I deleted it, thinking that since it was empty, this was not an issue. However, I was then mortified to see that that in the 'uni' folder (lower case) all of its subfolders, (there used to be 3 of them) which had contained hundreds of very important emails, did not exist any more! When I tried to back up and 'undo' the rename, there was no undo option. Does anyone out there know what I can do to get my subfolder emails back? I have searched for them on my entire system but they are nowhere to be seen :(((( Any help would be a most appreciated Yours (in a cold sweat!) Adrian :Oops: [/QUOTE]
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