John said: >Sorry, I know this is a stupid, lame question, but in a nutshell what >file(s) are critical to be backing up prior to doing upgrades?
You're more than welcome, John. There are no stupid questions here. I've posed the most "stupid" question way before you anyway! I backup by making one zip-archive each of these items in "PowerMail Files": Address Database Attachments (<-important if you receive valuable originals here) Custom Dictionary (<-good to keep if you add items to it) Custom Scripts (-< only necessary if added scripts since last backup) Message Database (<- Most important) Message Database index (<-can be rebuilt, but takes a while) Server-side Database Setup Database (<-important) User Prefs (<-somewhat important) also in "~/Library/Preferences" com.ctmdev.PowerMail.plist Sometimes also in "/Library/Application Support/PowerMail" if I added any scripts there. Most often I haven't though. I burn these to CD. If I recently made one of these backups I instead search for "messages received after [the date I last made a backup] " and export these from the results window, by selecting all of them, and checking "selected messages" in the first export window and "include attachments" in the second. Then I backup the resulting file. (PM 5.2.3 Swedish | OS X 10.3.9 | Powerbook G4/400Mhz | 1GB RAM | 30GB HD
