TB saves drafts every few minutes unless that feature has been switched off.

It saves a copy of the draft in the Drafts folder. If you delete it from that folder, it would go into the Trash on the same root as the draft. It would only disappear from TB if you deleted it from the Trash folder or if you have told TB to automatically delete all the Trash emails on exit.

I'd guess that your wife has accidentally clicked 'Ctrl+Enter/Return' and sent it by email so you might want to look in the 'Sent' folder to see if it's there. But, again, if you've cleaned out the Sent folder, it would have gone into Trash and so on...

Good morning. I appreciate your reply. I don't know what was done because I wasn't not there. I would like to know if there are any other ways to know if it is possible to somehow delete a draft without leaving any trace. I did not see any kind of draft in the trash, sent or draft folder with the date of 1/1/25 which is when it was created. There are other messages/drafts in the folder(s) prior to yesterdays date, so we know nothing (meaning the whole items like drafts/sent and trash) was not mass deleted.

Please let me know what you think and I will forward the response to my wife.

Thank you very much

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Maybe someone here has more experience about whether the draft could simply disappear and have had the same experience. It must have been some email to have been 6 hours in composition!.

I would check to make sure that Drafts are automatically saved every few minutes (Hamburger (top right)/Settings/Composition) because, if switched off, it may not have been backed up - but TB asks whether changes should be saved when you 'x' out of an email composition.

Even if the computer crashed, there should still be a saved draft.

Sorry that I can't be of more help.