Hi Alex
Having spent so much time on the phone with you my admiration
and respect for your technical abilities has grown even further!
Oh, and as we'd say in Australia, you're a "good bloke" too,
which is as high a compliment a person could be paid!!
Thank you!
What is the best way for one to save their emails to say an s d
card, without having to back up the entire flash disk? Also,
would attachments with the emails be backed up in such a way? If
not, how could attachments be backed up?
Again, many thanks and hope your generosity, kindness and very
good nature is returned to you when you need it!!
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hall <[email protected]
To: bn <[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:37:37 -0500
Subject: [Braillenote] what I learned from the evil keymail
database saga...
Hi all,
After much phone time both to the person I was helping and to hw
tech
support, I learned a few very important things that everyone who
has
any bn should keep in mind:
1. Your keymail folder will always contain a database called
email
folders.cdb, which is always hidden. However, this is NOT ALWAYS
your
email database! If deleting and restoring, copying over, and so
on
does not work, try looking in the keylist folder or the none
folder
for an email folders.cdb file. If you find one, move it to
keymail,
replacing the one already there, then try the usual erase/replace
steps on it.
2. Just because you back up your keymail folder does not mean
you back
up your emails. In the past, email folders.cdb has been put in a
few
different locations, and keysoft will accept any of them. This
means
that, if you restore an mPower backup to an Apex, your cdb may in
fact
be in keylist, none, or somewhere else. To make sure you have
the
right one, hit space-i on the cdb file and check the size. If it
says
48kb, it is an empty database. I know you can hit space-i on the
email
folders folder (the keylist definition file), but if this file's
database is somewhere else and you do not realize it, the record
count
you get may not be the count of records in the cdb in the same
folder
but rather that of the cdb located in keylist or somewhere else.
Before you go deleting and replacing, it is best to back up your
entire flash disk if you have never messed with the cdb before,
so
that you do not accidentally erase the right file, as I did
(sorry,
Peter!!).
3. As some have pointed out, copying a database to the flash
disk
protects it automatically. This caused me to panic for a moment
when,
after all this, keymail said "access is denied" when we tried to
erase
an email. Make sure that, if you copy a cdb from a backup into
the
keymail (or keylist or keybase) folder, you go find the copy on
the
flash disk and hit backspace-p, then u to unprotect the cdb.
Failure
to do so will result in the "access is denied" message whenever
you
try to do anything other than read from the database.
Hope this helps someone. Sorry if this is a bit technical.
--
Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
[email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
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