>This AM my emailer database totally died. I tried repeatedly to rebuild >it, but all I get are "orphaned folders". There are a LOT of messages in >that database.
Didn't you mention a long while back that you knew your database was corrupted? And didn't we all advise you then to do the rebuild and fight the issue BEFORE it got worse? <sigh> sometimes people learn the hard way :-) >1. I want to "clone" an empty copy of my old database with the same >folders. Is there a way to do this, outside of creating them one by one? I'm unaware of anyway to do this. Although I would think you can write an applescript to walk thru the database and just delete all email in all folders >2. I cannot use Email Archiver. It cannot scan my Emailer database to >find the folders. Is it simply too corrupted to archive? Any tricks >anyone know? Should I email the author for support? If I can make it >work, I am happy to pay the shareware fee. Can any other applescripts? There is an export/import Eudora script that will leave the messages in a state that will let them be transfered to and from Emailer databases. That script works on any selected messages, which means you would have to do each folder in turn. You could probably modify the script to walk thru your folders saving you the effort of selecting them by hand. >3. Is there a way to run two copies of Emailer? I am thinking of >splitting its duties to different accounts. I Know I can set preferences >inside the Emailer program, but what happens if I try using two copies, >each checking different accounts??? Probably bad things, but I want to >ask. I need to reduce the email into the database and have one that >manages only the important accounts, as otherwise I need a different >email program for those other accounts. Yup, just duplicate the entire Emailer folder, and drop the prefs into the folder. You can have as many unique copies of Emailer running at the same time as you want. I do this all the time at home, my wife runs one copy, I run the other. Usually at the exact same time, often downloading messages to their own databases at the exact same time. >last, we can talk about recovery... Any tricks come up in the past few >months. Somehow I was kicked off the live list, and when it is on >archive, I rarely read the messages. ;-) What happened was I was sending >and receiving a couple GB of email, (yes GB unfortunately) and after >receiving about 30 5MB bounces, I could not open some incoming messages. >Double clicking did nothing. I quit, relaunched, and there was nothing >available. I rebuilt, advanced rebuilt, etc. Best I ever got was about >half the email with about half the folders, all but the default called >orphans. yuch. Worst case, the mail database is readable in a text editor. It isn't clean, it isn't sorted, and its a nightmare to try to find and extract the messages... but its doable. Have you tried removing the Index file and then starting Emailer? This forces an advanced rebuild, but I've found that it works when an Advanced doesn't (my best guess is that even during an Advanced rebuild, certain info is carried from the old index file. By removing the index file you force Emailer to start it from scratch). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
