Sean McBride said: >I'm guessing it's complaining about the 2 GB limit. I guess I've been >playing with fire >being so close to 2 GB for so long, but I always hope >that tomorrow there will be a new PM without that limitation.
I too was bitten by this identical situation and I finally bit the dust and got hold of PowerMail Salvage. It cost me $52 in total and it was worth every penny. Watch out though for salvaging just a percent of the messages. Currently there is no definitive order of messages and dates may be unavailable for some messages you need, depending on the nature of the damage. You may very well end up in a situation with duplicate messages, if you merge with your backup. If so, you'll need my PowerMail Salvage header compatible update to the DeleteDups script or similar. Available per request. PowerMail Engineering said: >However we should probably disable fetching, rather than just displaying >an alert, when the database size approches 2 GB... "Probably"? Skip "probably" and implement in this sound move in an upcoming incremental update. It's a wonder you guys didn't think about this to begin with. After all the alert says "getting close to 2GB", not how much closer the current fetch will get you there and as a user you kind of trust applications to not corrupt their own data files by design. Errors should be handled. Especially if the user have been throwing away thousands of messages as I had and not fetching more than that number, this bug or limitation is a very unwelcome surprise. Also, I want to see a publication of what different errors of PowerMail mean, as soon as possible. Just a clue may be enough in many instances. >If neither compact, verify consistency or low level rebuild work (using >a copy of the file with the .old extension) then the only choices you >have are trying Ben Kennedy's PowerMail Salvage, or restoring your last >backup... As I said above, PowerMail Salvage does the job. Nevertheless I'd rather pay $52 to get a new modern PowerMail. Sorry Ben. PM 5.2.3 Swedish | OS X 10.4.5 | Powerbook G4/400Mhz | 1GB RAM | 30GB HD
