Oops. Did you spot the deliberate mistake? I meant '.. if you don't have a copy of Filemaker Pro.'
It's worth obtaining a copy of the Claris Emailer Companion by Thomas Dell and published by Academic Press. My copy is dated 1997 but the book may now be out of print. I'm not aware of an alternative reference. Maybe other Emailers know different? The backup utility to which I refer is 'Emailer Archive', v3, and credited to Dan Crevier and David Cortright. It runs a bit slow on my Mac' but has proven to be reliable. You might also like to visit http://www.macemail.com/emailer/CEMH/tips_and_highlights.shtml and see under 'Filing Weirdness' where there is a reference to the disappearing messages phenomena. The 'dragging messages between browser windows' solution works well enough but I didn't find the F5 tip effective. I suspect this tip is intended for relocating some of the Emailer files, e.g. in moving the mail database to a larger hard disk. It's not useful for fixing database corruptions. Phil >Mark > >Have you tried rebuilding the database lately? Hold dowm the <option key> >when you launch Emailer and you will be presented with two options, the >first usually suffices. The second advanced option will help with fairly >serious database corruptions but it is not perfect. > >200Mbyte? That's small! I had over 450Mbyte in Emailer's database before >I found a method of backing up folders to a Filemaker Pro database. Visit >the fogcity website for more details. It will provide advice on backing >up if you don't have a copy of Emailer. > >You may find that in rebuilding the database you will end up with extra >'Orphaned Folders'. These can be deleted once you are sure their contents >have been filed elswhere. I recently encountered these folders during a >recent rebuild but dealt with them satisfactorily once I was sure they >merely held duplicates of messages stored elsewhere. > >By rebuilding and regular backing up you will find Emailer will run much >more quickly. > >Regards > >Phil. > >PS - You may encounter a phenomena in which upon single-clicking a folder >its contents appear empty. Try double-clicking and thereby launching a >second window. I've found you can select and drag back any messages you >find there into its parent window. Why this happens, I'm not sure, but >you will find the phenomena documented in some Emailer websites. Hope >this helps. > >>Unfortunately, I've let my v2.0v3 Emailer mail database get very big >>(almost 200 MB) over a span of almost three years without backing up >>(stupid me!). Now, I think it's toast. >> >>The problem began when I downloaded my mail and one of the messages in >>my Inbox wouldn't open when I clicked on it. Turned out, my TCP/IP >>control panel was inadvertently open at the time I was downloading the >>messages (don't know if this is related). >> >>I closed Emailer, opened it again, and got an error message very roughly >>like this: >> >>"Can't open the mail database because an action on an incoming email was >>not completed. Press OK to quit." >> >>Now, when I try to open Emailer, I get the error message: >> >>"Claris Emailer could not open the required file "Mail Database" because >>the file was created by a more recent (and incompatible) version of >>Claris Emailer. Press OK to quit." >> >>Strange. Any solutions for retrieving my archives would be greatly >>appreciated. >> >>Thanks, >>Mark Winitz >> >> >> >>___________________________________________________________________________ >>To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
