Subject: Mayday...I need HELP!!!

From: Barbara Marschke <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:14:27 -0500 (EST)

Please..... Can anyone help me with my problem???
 
I cannot believe this.  I was trying to change my setup in pine according
to the help manual and somehow I deleted all of my folders except my
inbox.  It won't even let me make a new folder.  What could I have done.
I have saved sooooo much good information in there and now it all gone.
 I posted a survey and all of the responses to it are gone.  All my listserv
information is gone.  Everything except my current inbox has vanished.
Even my sent mail is gone...Everything...Vaporized into
cyberspace.  Is there anyway I can retrieve it ?
Please...can someone help me?????  Can you read my panic???? Thanks for
reading this and mucho thanks if you can help.

Barbara Marschke
[email-masked]

A desperate graduate student

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From: "Michael C. Newell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:53:30 -0500 (EST)

> I have saved sooooo much good information in there and now it all gone.

Did you change your folder-collections directory?  The default is

	folder-collections	mail/[]

If you change this then Pine will get confused as to what directory tree 
your folders are stored in...

Thanks,

Mike

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From: [email-masked] (Liam Crilly)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:02:02 GMT

Barbara Marschke wrote:
[...]
» I cannot believe this.  I was trying to change my setup in pine according
» to the help manual and somehow I deleted all of my folders except my
» inbox.  It won't even let me make a new folder.  What could I have done.
» I have saved sooooo much good information in there and now it all gone.

It's more likely that you've changed the
"folder-collections" line than actually
deleting all of your folders.

Choose [Config] from the Setup menu and
delete any value from the "folder-collections"
line.  If, after restarting Pine, you still
can't access your folders check what someone
else has their "folder-collections" line set
to and try that.

I hope that works!

	Liam.

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From: Barbara Marschke <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 20:54:42 -0500

Mayday cancelled.  Someone from the Czech Republic suggested that I 
probably combined all of my folders into another and that is what I did.  
I found my folders and have all of my info back Whew!!  Thank you for 
your offer of help

Barbara Marschke
[email-masked]