>After I copied my Emailer DB to another drive, threw away some 40 000 >messages and then rebuilt (basic) the DB and finally copied it back and >everything seems to work fine, if not great. > >However, I just noticed, some days later now, that I've got an "Orphaned >folder", which contains 3 messages possibly from one of the folders I >threw away. This is new for me. I think I haven't ever got one of these >before. >I suppose these 3 could have been buried somehow in the late folder they >belonged to, and came forward post rebuilding, but at that point there >were no folder to end up in, as I had tossed that. Does this sound likely >to you? > >I'm relying on our collectice Emailer knowledge here and I ask. Should I >be worried? >What do you think? > > > >M
I recently had an e-mailer problem. I had never done a rebuild before but was forced to after this mess; I have been running e-mailer since 1996 or so. I had noticed a few days prior that I had to wait for the connection window to appear after booting e-mailer before I could hit the return key and get it to connect. Previously, I could wait a few seconds into the Clair E-mailer Window (ad), hit return, and when the connect window ahowed up, it would quickly close and start connecting. This should have alerted me to a problem but it did not. Then I backed up my database one night, shut down, and the next morning, when I started e-mailer, I recived some kind of message about E-mailer trying to read to the end of a file, or something like that, but the bottom line is I could not open it. So I did a typical rebuild and what showed up was approximatley 8 names folders and about 30 missing ones....I had thought I lost literally 100s of filed e-mail and their folders, or so I thought. An advanced rebuild resulted in the same. Just by a quirk, I did a find on a subject line of a recent e-mail I had received. E-mailer found it but there appeared to be no folder associated with it.....it was not in the 8 remaining folders....it was just invisible except when I identified it with the "find" command. So I did a find on the date prior to the problem, and sure enough, e-mailer found all the e-mail that I received and sent (saved) the day before the problem...yet none showed that they belonged to anyfolder at all.....My backed-up database was messed up as well so I had to go back to an earlier database, switched between it and the damaged database, back and forth, doing finds on every date after the older database had been saved, and forwarded all my "invisible" mail to my older database....took me all day but it looks like I got it all. Made me think that if you have a problem with e-mailer one day, don't assume that mail that appears "lost" is really lost....I suggest doing a find on the date just prior to the crash before trashing the database. I had no "orphan" folders. Mary Lou ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
