Greetings! I'm hoping somebody out there can help me. This
is all on an unmodified Palm IIIe, running PalmOS 3.1.1.
My Mail database is messed up. Whenever I start Mail, I
get:
MemoryMgrNew.c, Line:2987, Nill ID
and the dreaded reset button. When I use Find, or use
RsrcEdit to open MailDB, find can report a few matches, but
then bombs out with:
MemoryMgrNew.c, Line:2982, Nill ID
(note the slightly different line number) and the same reset
button. When I try to tick the Backup tickbox in RsrcEdit
(hoping to HotSync then patch the DB on the desktop), I get
Error 32.
If I duplicate the DB with RsrcEdit, it appears to go OK,
but the next thing I did was hit the scrollbutton in the
resource list and I got
MemoryMgrNew.c, Line:4128, Invalid handle
and the reset button, which didn't work. However, the DB
*was* about 2/3 duplicated, and I could open and fully
inspect the duplicate. I promptly renamed them both and
started Mail, but it still flaked out. Since App/info sums
the record counts and sizes of the two databases, I'm
ASSuming that Mail sucked them both in and still choked. I
tried to change the Creator and Type, but RsrcEdit got Error
43.
Losing 1/3 of my email is better than all of it, and I'll
delete the broken DB with RsrcEdit and take my losses and
run if no other solution arises. I wonder if this will lose
memory?
Interestingly enough, if I use PopUpFind, I get the same
error, but the reset goes into what looks like shortcut.1
(debugging?) state (the Palm logo with a blinking square in
the upper left of the screen). If I can use this debugging
state to hack things, please let me know.
App/Info has no trouble telling me how big the DB is.
Does anybody know of a program that will help me out? I had
great hopes for RsrcEdit, since I was expecting that the ID
that's Nill would be something obvious from inspecting the
other records in the DB, but no such thing shows up when
inspecting the duplicated DB.
I believe that I first got into this by using Top Gun
Postman and then doing a HotSync with the Mail conduit still
enabled (I had hoped that this would provide a backup, even
if the email hadn't been fetched from the PC, but annoyingly
there's no "handheld overrides desktop" setting for Mail).
I did a hard reset to clear the that first instance up (Mail
and MailDB don't show up in App/Delete), but it reappeared
without a Mail HotSync, and I'm reluctant to lose another
half-meg of email chasing this down.
The MailDB in the desktop's Backup appears to be from the
last Mail HotSync, weeks ago.
Yes, I'm modifying my email fetching scheme to provide a
backup path. This is all non-essential email in any case,
but it's annoying to lose it nonetheless.
Thanks for any help you can render!
Dennis Rockwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BBN Technologies
GTE Technology Organization +1-617-873-5745
Cambridge, MA +1-617-873-6091 (Fax)
