Hi Stacy: I ran into a similar problem a couple of years ago and found a solution, which I outlined in a blog entry: Stupid Thunderbird Tricks: Fixing a Corrupt In Box http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2006/04/stupid_thunderb.html Perhaps this will help. Ron Ron Miller Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine Staff Writer, Daniweb.com Editor, FierceContentManagement Newsletter my blog: http://byronmiller.typepad.com Daniweb Blog: http://tinyurl.com/5hozlr Follow me: http://twitter.com/rjourn Winner of the Apex Award for Publication Excellence/Feature Writing 2006-2008 On Aug 29, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Stacy Kontrabecki wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the > member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > My Dell laptop with XP on it has been cranky about waking from > hibernation when I lift the lid. It often is a minute before > anything shows on the screen, but most times it's a few seconds. I > couldn't get anything so I tapped the power button, which sometimes > pops the image on the screen and I'm OK. The other times it shuts > down the PC in a bad way. After today's shut down I open to > Thunderbird to see my Inbox with mail as recent as July 07, but > nothing new. There are new emails that have been filtered into my > INbox subdirectories that still exist, but nothing in just the Inbox. > > So I have 2 problems - the biggest being > > Where can I find 2008 new email? > > The bigger Q is Why do I get these hibernate lockups that require > nasty manual power button intervention? I've had similar issues > twice already this year where my Inbox has been totally relocated > to some cryptic place on my hard drive that takes a 2nd party and > hours to find - never relocates to a logical place. I just need to > start from scratch with this PC, but haven't done so yet. > > Help me find my email! > > Stacy > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech > Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the > Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20080829/84adc888/attachment.html