Tracy Lee wrote: >"Orphaned Folder"s are what are created by Emailer when doing a rebuild.
This is what I get for not keeping good notes. I ran into this problem about six months ago, and finally kludged a solution. I don't know if I remember it all, though. Here's what I can pull out the wetware... I was trying to archive old messages (I had an 800 MB data base) for the first time, using the runtime version of Emessage Archiver 3.05. In setting it up, you run an AppleScript that pulls the folder names from Emailer. It didn't work. In reviewing the event log, it became clear that it was choking on some specific folders. >From what I could figure out, Emailer (2.0v3) assigns internal, consequitive numbers to folders. It then keeps a separate list of what those folders are presently labled. The number of the folder doesn't change, but your label might. As old folders are deleted, the numbers are not reused. No problem, except that Emailer seems to have a maximum limit of something like 220 folders, IIRC. Once you've created, say, 220 folders it starts assigning weird numbers (in the millions?) to newly created folders. Emailer and Emessage Archiver seem to choke on those weird folder numbers. One of the results is orphaned folders. Here's where my memory gets very hazy. I recall using multiple rebuilds, alternating the advanced and basic options. And I recall using two John Carlsen scripts called "Save EM-2 Folder Hierarchy" v1.1 and "Restore EM-2 Folder Hierarchy" v1.1, although I also recall fooling around with those scripts because this was not the intended purpose. Anyway, I managed to banish the orphaned folders and any folders with weird numbers forever. I then went back into my database and cleaned up my folders. I managed to salvage about 20 "original number" folders that I wasn't using. When I need a new folder, I go into that stash and rename an existing folder. I no longer create new folders. When I no longer need a folder, it goes into the stash instead of being deleted. I'll dig around and see if I can come up with any more information. But that's the best I can remember right now. Good luck! Cheers, Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates 831/582-0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors--and miss." RAH ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
