On 10 May 99 00:57:49 -0100, Wayne SS paused for a moment's thought and chose to write
this about
[netconnect] Microdot ate my e-mails shocker!:
> The *MicroDot.prefs* file,
> required to see the e-mails in the *data* drawer, has somehow reverted
> back to default. I know not why.
Get PFS2 now! If your prefs file gets overwritten and you want the old
one back, you'll find it in .deldir . Bit late for that I suppose :-/
> I will now have to go through all the 1000's (literally) of files in
the *data* drawer, and salvage the bodies of the messages, to build
one big text document.
I've mentioned this a couple of times before (for a different reason)
but you could join all the messages as a big text file using the JOIN
command (with wildcards). If you want, I'll reply again to explain
how.
You'd then have to wipe all the headers, but use a util to replace
text. (Eg. replace all occurrences in your big file of all text
contained between two keywords (which are likely to be the same
throughout your mails))
e.g. in mine, I'd remove all text between "Envelope-to:" and
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7 bit" by replacing with a row of
asterisks.
You may find something on Aminet, or if you have TransWrite use that
(by simply inserting a ? between the keywords)
> However,some message bodies seem to be incomprehensible gibberish.
What's that all about then?
I remember that happening to me. Not a lot you can do I don't think.
It may be the formatting codes messing it up when people use // and **
and __ etc.
>
> I guess that's the next few weekends spoken for, er?
Beats going down the pub ;-)
Good luck.
PS. When you've finished, don't forget to delete all the mails in the
Data dir. I don't think flushing in MD2 will work because it doesn't
know they exist (but it might, try it)
PPS. Just remembered. I heard something about a prog on Aminet that
can reimport lost mails into MD2. Would be a lot simpler.
I'd try that first if I were you!
PPPS. Get PFS2 now.
PC.
--
Ambition, noun: an ant crawling up an elephant's leg with rape on his
mind.
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