Responses within >alan wrote: > >>Rule 1: If the browser window is closed, PowerMail goes through the >>motions of exporting but doesn't actually do anything. > >This bug will be fixed in the next release.
Thanks! > >>Rule 2: You have to go through every mailbox and turn on "View All" >>before exporting "everything" or else PowerMail doesn't export everything. > >This will also be fixed in the next release. Thanks! Or, leave it as it is, but add a dialog that warns you before you export. I can imagine times when this behavior might be useful. > >>Rule 3: Some of your attachments will be duplicated when you export and >>import your database. It is hard to tell how or why. > >Did you import to an empty database, with an empty attachment folder? You >included the attachments to the export, so if you used the same >attachment folder when reimporting, the attachments are created again >from the export file. Yes, I did import to an empty database and empty attachment folder >If you imported to an empty attachment folder, can you try to find a >message whose attachments have been duplicated, then export this single >message from your old database (including the attachments of course) and >send me the export file so I can see what is wrong? If I have time. I am against a deadline right now. > >>Jerôme: If you want to know the call graph where PowerMail seemed to >>hang, it is copied below. > >The problem comes from the fact that you sometimes access your database >locally, and sometimes via file sharing. The attachments are referenced >through aliases, and it seems that Mac OS has a problem when resolving an >alias to file on a server, when this file is now a local file. >As you probably have attachment aliases in the 2 ways (some created while >you where accessing your attachment folder locally, some when accessing >it via file sharing), the problem occurs in the 2 cases. Yes. Aliases are such a good idea, but I think Apple has some problems when it comes to implementation. I use aliases heavily to reference files from different folders, and when I had to reinstall things a few weeks ago, every alias on my computer became unfunctional, which is causing me many problems. Aliases to other machines (using File Sharing) "go sour" much more frequently, and seem to be particularly fragile. Cheers and thanks. A
