Draft message disappears

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I was editing a draft message, which had already been saved in the draft folder the day before, when I miscued with typing, and my message instantly disappeared and was replaced by an empty new message. The typing miscue also deleted the message I was replying to, which had been in the Inbox for a week! And no, nothing appeared in Trash or Junk etc

I don’t know what the miscue was, and I could not retrieve my original message or the draft anywhere. It wasn’t even in the drafts folder, unamended or otherwise. What could have happened?

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I tried every combination of keyboard shortcut, but nothing reproduces the issue, so I can’t say what happened.

Looking for the deleted messages, did you try use the search box to find them, making sure all folders and fields were selected?

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Thanks for helpful reply. I tried search all folders. No luck with my draft, but it did retrieve the email to which I was replying, which I transferred back to Inbox. Curiously, I couldn’t determine where it had gone (there was a house avatar), but that may reflect my own lack of knowledge about EmC.

I’ve never seen this in 20+ years of using MS clients. Even if I did something wrong (with a draft that had been saved at least once), a last good draft could be found somewhere. But not with eM Client…?

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That most likely indicates it was in Local Folders. Still can’t work out how it got there though, as I tried everything to reproduce it. :crazy_face:

If Local Folders are not visible in your left folder list, go to Menu > Settings > General and make sure Show Local Folders is selected. Maybe you will find the missing draft.