Accidentally deleted a draft email in Mail - Can I recover it??

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Accidentally deleted a draft email in Mail - Can I recover it??

Please help!

I've made this mistake twice: I thought I had the email open, but it wasn't and was just displaying below. I hit the delete button wanting to delete one word, but to my horror the entire draft was deleted!!

Is there ANY way to recover this email? I sure hope so, as I spent a lot of time composing it! It's not in my trash folder.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 2, 2009 1:51 PM

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Dec 2, 2009 2:03 PM in response to exsci

Never mind - I found it in my second trash folder. I still haven't figured out how Mail delegates mail into it's own folders & GMAIL's folders when syncing IMAP. It doesn't seem to make much sense, at least in terms of the sent, draft & trash folders. There are two of each, and it uses it's own sent & draft folders, not the IMAP ones, but apparently uses the IMAP trash folder & not it's own. Very weird.

But, thankfully I recovered the last edited message in the trash so I have what I need. Sorry for posting & then solving my own question!

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