Agreed. But my experience differs. I've never had an unfixable db error with PM and I've been using it since v3
-- Andy Fragen On Mon, Jan 23, 2006, Amnon Yaish said: >The situation described by Robert (and which I experimented all too >often) should'nt ever happen, and if it happens, the tool to *try* and >retrieve some of the messages in the corrupt database should be included >in the package we are paying for, not paid (rather expensive) to a third >party developer. Especially since the problem is evidently with PowerMail. > >Amnon. > > > >Jean-Michel Therond wrote: >> >> Le 23 janv. 06 à 19:41, Robert Snyder a écrit : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> My database was nearing 2GB, so I tried to compress it, but that >>> tailed with a database error. So I tried to perform a low level >>> database rebuild, but that failed. HELP. This has all of my important >>> data in it--licenses, serial numbers, job histories, etc. >>> >>> Is there any way to extract data from the database? How can I get >>> PowerMail to launch again--it keeps failing with a database error >>> when I try to launch it. >>> >> >> As the low level rebuild doen't do the job, you may consider trying a >> third party software such as "PowerMail Salvage". >> >> http://www.zygoat.ca/products/pmsalvage/ >> >> HTH, >> >> Jean-Michel >> >> > >