Brett, The messages are showing up in my inbox but only in the inbox on my pc, when I check my inbox on the mac the messages are not there. Kieth, the problem I am having is so far only with one document, and only with text edit. When I open it, all that wil read are simbols like ~ and |. Things of that sort. The document had been reading fine until that point, but I hadn't done anything different that I know of. It's a really important document, so if there is any way I can recover it, that would be great. Thank you guys so much for the assistance here. Eternally His, Nicole Read and subscribe to get divinely inspired devotionals by email: www.nicolehutchins.wordpress.com