v52.6.0 (32-bit), Windows 7 Pro I'm using POP mail on my domain's server hosted at HostMySite. I download all mail to TB and delete it from the server. Last Friday (February 9), all but 5 of the messages in my Inbox disappeared. I had a few thousand messages in there going back a few years (I know, I know, I've learned my lesson). All of my other folders (multiple levels of storage folders for clients, list mail, etc.) look fine. I remember that there had been a request to compact folders, and I think I did, as I usually do when it pops up. I was able to open the Inbox folder in Word (19MB, which would seem to tell me that the messages are there), but all I saw was a real estate ad, probably from some spam that I hadn't deleted. I've tried the following (after saving copies of both my entire TB profile and the Inbox folder to my desktop): ------------------------ Clicking "Repair folder" in the Properties dialog for the Inbox folder Closing TB, deleting Inbox.msf, and restarting TB Closing TB, restoring the Inbox folder from my February 7 backup (that's the earliest date of one of the remaining 5 messages), deleting Inbox.msf again, and restarting TB Ditto for the February 9 backup (the latest date of one of the remaining 5 messages) Closing TB, deleting global-messages-db.sqlite, and restarting TBird Rebooting my computer ---------------------------- Any hope of recovery? I can probably live without the lost messages, but I'd love to get them back if possible to be sure. Thanks much.