Well, darn.

[resonant]

... as my grandmother is reputed to have said after the sewing machine needle went through her thumb.

In an effort to get my real name to stop showing up in LJTalk, I have just somehow or other lost my e-mail program and everything in it. Including mail-sorting rules, e-mails I was saving for various reasons, e-mails I had not yet responded to, and apparently my entire damned address book.



I don't even know which of the many things I did caused the problem. I renamed the computer, and the Home folder, and any number of other things. (None of which, by the way, was successful at getting my real name out of several places that I'd really like to get it out of.) I renamed my "account" in OS X. I logged off and logged back on and restarted. And then the next time I started up Mail, the computer acted like it had never seen me before.

I reconfigured my e-mail accounts, and I made new smart mailboxes to replace the Rules, and I think the majority of what was in the address book was also in Now Contact and can be re-exported. (I was considering getting rid of Now Contact and just using the address book. Guess I now see the flaw in that plan.)

But, slugs and fungus, what a total annoyance.

I'm not even asking for solutions. I'm just whining.

[editing to add details, just in case]: Mac; OS X Tiger (v.10.4.7); Mail for Mac v.2.1).

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[giglet.livejournal.com]

Yikes!