I've been testing The Bat for about a week, and just finished setting up several dozen folders and incoming filters. The first sign of something weird was when I opened the program a short while ago, after a normal shutdown (program & computer) and restart. What I noticed was that the "Junk nail" folder under my main account was now called "$JUNK$", and a duplicate of it now existed as a common folder.
It was more like a mirror, actually; I renamed one of them back to "Junk mail" (previously it hadn't let me rename it, but now it did), and the other one changed as well. I moved the common folder left (Ctrl-Shift-Left), but it complained that a folder with the same name already existed in that location (i.e. under my main account). So I just deleted it (and they both went to the trash). Later, when I downloaded my email again, a new "Junk" folder was created, this time without a special icon.
Not long afterwards, I deleted an account which I was no longer using (and which contained no messages folders, besides the default ones). When it asked if I wanted to delete the data, I said no.
Later during the same session, I noticed that one of the folders which had been under my main account (and which contained many subfolders) was missing. So I closed and restarted the program.
Now that folder is still missing, and what's more, the "Junk mail" filter (with the original icon) is back (and contains messages, including some from much earlier today), various subfolders appear in folders where they don't belong, at least one folder & its subfolder, as well as one virtual folder, is duplicated/mirrored in a different location (as I described above), many subfolders are missing, and quite a few folders or subfolders which used to contain messages are now empty. None of these missing messages are to be found in the Trash.
Can anyone explain or guess what the [bleep] happened, and what the [bleep] I can do to fix it? I must say, I was almost ready to buy this program, but such bizarre behavior does not inspire my confidence, to put it gently.
(Incidentally, I was just recently fantasizing about, and even began planning, to take an email sabbatical, but I wasn't expecting to start quite yet! Perhaps The Bat was just trying to give me a push?
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It was more like a mirror, actually; I renamed one of them back to "Junk mail" (previously it hadn't let me rename it, but now it did), and the other one changed as well. I moved the common folder left (Ctrl-Shift-Left), but it complained that a folder with the same name already existed in that location (i.e. under my main account). So I just deleted it (and they both went to the trash). Later, when I downloaded my email again, a new "Junk" folder was created, this time without a special icon.
Not long afterwards, I deleted an account which I was no longer using (and which contained no messages folders, besides the default ones). When it asked if I wanted to delete the data, I said no.
Later during the same session, I noticed that one of the folders which had been under my main account (and which contained many subfolders) was missing. So I closed and restarted the program.
Now that folder is still missing, and what's more, the "Junk mail" filter (with the original icon) is back (and contains messages, including some from much earlier today), various subfolders appear in folders where they don't belong, at least one folder & its subfolder, as well as one virtual folder, is duplicated/mirrored in a different location (as I described above), many subfolders are missing, and quite a few folders or subfolders which used to contain messages are now empty. None of these missing messages are to be found in the Trash.
Can anyone explain or guess what the [bleep] happened, and what the [bleep] I can do to fix it? I must say, I was almost ready to buy this program, but such bizarre behavior does not inspire my confidence, to put it gently.
(Incidentally, I was just recently fantasizing about, and even began planning, to take an email sabbatical, but I wasn't expecting to start quite yet! Perhaps The Bat was just trying to give me a push?
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