Yesterday was a very unhappy day for at least two Apple Mail users.

Mac Medic at A Mac Guy’s Perspective writes about one of his customers:

Had this one happen today. Customer was using Mail and selected all the messages in his inbox by hitting, CMD-A. Then when not really looking he hit CMD-X. Thus deleting all his messages without warning. Now, he could have undone it or pasted them back, but he restarted. Which is usually a good thing to do. In this case though it erases the clipboard file and all those messages are now gone.

And over at macosx.com, a student writes:

Recently the college I attended discontinued service for all recently graduated students (like me). So I wanted to take the mailbox off of Mail but still have all the messages somewhere. So I hastily deleted the Inbox for that mailbox by going under “IN” and hitting delete (and then it asked if i wanted to, and i hit continue or something).

There’s nothing worse than some smarty-pants offering sage advice after the event, but…. Backup, backup, backup.

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