Sean McBride wrote:
>In my PowerMail Files folder there is a "Message Database.old" file which
>is very close to 2 GB (2 147 482 894 bytes-- very close). If I remove the
>.old extension and launch PM it rebuilds indexes but then gives the error:
>
>Class=DB ; what = 4; when = 7; err = 37
>
>I believe this was the original error I saw also. If I try a low level
>rebuild it gives the error:
>
>Class=DB ; what = 100; when = 100; err = 493
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...
>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. (After all,
>the 64-bit File Manager APIs were introduced in Mac OS 9, 7 years ago!!!
>Hello CTM!)
Unfortunately this limit is more about the DB engine we use, and the
internal DB structures, than the file system API. It would require a
whole new database format to break this limit, and this will not happen
in the short term.
However we should probably disable fetching, rather than just displaying
an alert, when the database size approches 2 GB...
Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering
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