Hi all, Well I checked my mail today and about half way through it reported an error. I pressed OK and the alert came back. I dismissed literally dozens of these messages but they wouldn't stop. So I force quit PM. I then relaunched and held option and did a rebuild but when it was done I ended up with 0 messages!!! All my folders were still there but there were no messages in any of them. Ack! I check that 'view only unread' was not chosen.
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 These message so are vague, its hard to troubleshoot! 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!) I have a backup of course, but its a few weeks old. Any suggestion on how I can get my messages back? Thanks! Sean (via good ol' pine :) )
