On May 18, 2004, at 1:48 am, Mark James wrote:
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.
While I would like to recover it, I am resigned to moving on. I am only losing about 2 weeks of messages, which is a disaster, but a minor one.
I am working on a reply to your questions on the eMA-Talk list, so I will only reply here to a couple points.
The issue about losing 2 weeks of mail is easily solved by leaving messages on the server for some time the server will allow. When my email application seems to kill a database but there is some time since my last database, I immediately er, usually) start a new database and download them again; or I use another email application to do it. The server does not usually keep track of your downloads, so Email applications do it, and a new database has a different list.
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?
There is a script on my web site that does this. It just saves the old folder hierarchy in a plain text file, so when you start with a new clean database, you can run the second script to rebuild the same folder hierarchy. Empty folders, of course; no other Emailer data like Mail Actions or Account info. It is easily modified to do the same for other email applications and even between different applications, if you know AppleScript. You can get it at the link at the bottom of this page:
http://homepage.mac.com/ThinkAgain/Mac/
at "Other Programs." This page is mostly a copy from an older site, and I have not looked at the script since I uploaded it in 1999. If you have questions about it, just ask.
Warning: this script might not work if Emailer itself cannot find its folder info, that is if the database is too corrupt to handle this simple script.
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.
I don't know of any archiver for Emailer named "Email Archiver." There is Dan Crevier's "Emailer Archive" and there is my "eMessage Archiver" (eMA), which latter I assume you mean, since you asked me about this.
If either of these applications at least succeeds in starting to talk with Emailer, it may be that an AppleScript-savvy person could put in many more error traps around every Emailer command, and perhaps archive the majority of your mail. This can be tricky because on some errors Emailer puts up its own error dialogs, that have to be dealt with manually before the script can continue.
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Cheers,
John
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