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From: david@starnine.com (David Thompson)
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Subject: Re: System7 Pro PowerTalk/Starnine Alert
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Date: 12 Feb 1994 03:47:02 -0600
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In <Mark_Day-090294170949@mac247.kip.apple.com> Mark Day, Mark_Day@powertalk.apple.com writes:

> As a positive note, you can in fact recover this mail.
> All of the mail is still on your boot volume in a folder called "IPM Bin".
> To recover this lost mail, move everything else in your In Tray
> that is "local" to somewhere else on your hard disk.  "IPM Bin" will
> contain some files whose names are 8-digit hex numbers.  Just change
> their types to the same as an AppleMail letter, move them out of
> "IPM Bin", and open them with AppleMail.


As it turns out, it's even simpler to recover your lost messages.
You can simply drag the files in System Folder:PowerTalk Data:IPM Bin
over AppleMail and they will launch the app and display your messages,
attachments and all.  Or you can open the files within AppleMail.
You can do a Save As in AppleMail to restore the original type and
creator so the files are double-clickable AppleMail doc's again.

You can also use a file utility like FileType, Disk Top or ResEdit to
restore the files to their original type: lttr and creator: lap2.

BTW, Apple has told us they are going to change the Remove button
warning dialog box in the next version of PowerTalk to include
language telling the user to save the contents of the In Tray before
proceeding with a Remove.

David Thompson,
StarNine Technologies, Inc.