Have you tried a "typical rebuild"? Launch CE with the option key or the command & option keys down, and it will ask if you want to try a rebuild.
If that doesn't work, then you can progress to the other choice; a more in depth rebuild, which sometimes untrashes a lot of stuff that you wanted to stay trashed. But try the easy one first. And I suppose you ought to have a dup of the mail files, just in case something goes farther amiss. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix On 7/8/02 5:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] showcased stellar typing and language skills in this message: >After all these years, a problem with CE I don't think I can fix but here >goes: > >Yesterday I was cleaning out all of my folders and archiving old mail >into text and deleting the folder. After I was finished, my deleted >folder contained about 13,000 messages. I began deleting the messages and >CE froze. When I restarted and relaunched CE, the browser window wouldn't >open. > >I did another restart and got an error message telling me that CE could >not be launched because the database was not compatible with the newer >version of CE. > >So I reinstalled CE (v 2.03) retrieved the old database file and put it >in the new mail folder in the CE files and.... A Big Fat Nothing. > >I have all of the database files (old) from previous rebuilding going >back to April. Is there anyway to retrieve my old mail? > >I'm guessing I am dead in the water here. > >Norma ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
