Here is a rough one, little background: I have an Entourage email database, it has grown beyond 4GB, which is the limit of the database for the version I have. All efforts to get it to work have failed.
I used split to chunk the file into 5 groups, 4 1GB and 1 file with the rest. The remaining file is a few hundred megs, most of which is base64 attachments. In this file of course is also database gunk and binary data. I want to strip out the base64 attachments, and unsplit the file. This will get me to a file under 4Gb, or close to it, and I should be able to at least get back to some of my emails. I have to be careful to only touch the base64 bits though, or I corrupt the file. I have ran tests on smaller files, the theory works. So, in a multi hundred meg file, anyone know how I can find the base64 lines, and carriage return, and delete them, leaving the rest in tact. Ideally, it would look for the base64 start as a trigger, and maybe a boundary. I am not sure base64 will be identifiable amongst all the other stuff in the file though. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
