Hiro, >Yes, if crash happened during file write, B-Tree needs to be rebuilt.
Yes, but you are comparing incorrect things. I am talking about an idle state. The example you gave is an active state. I can understand file corruption with PM if it is actively doing something when a crash occurs. My multiple 16 hour Index file rebuilds I just recently had resolved were problems like this. PM was doing something actively, it crashed, it got corrupt. But I am not talking about that. I'm talking about an idle state. A state which Jerome himself should not produce a corruption. >To recap, if you expect email client to act as your favorite M$Word and >internet browser, do turn periodic email check off, and download emails >only when you tell PM to do so. I stated quite clearly that PM is in an idle state. That means it is not periodically checking email automatically (I've hated this feature since email was invented <g>). It only checks email manually when I say so. So when I walk away with no connections active, PowerMail is idle and therefore there should be no difference between PM and a browser, word processor, database program, etc. Again, Jerome himself said this, and he should know. >Now back to your machine problem, did you take a look at system.log? >Have you ran Hardware Diag? I don't know how to do either thing. However, I do run the latest version of Norton frequently. Just ran it 2 days ago. No problems with the drive that can be detected, no other problems with my system as far as I can tell. And that still doesn't address the PM corruption issue because although it might be triggering the corruption, it isn't causing it. Steve
