Dr Dave / 04.7.2 / 6:55AM wrote: >In the past, I have heard a number of reports of powermail database >corruption.
I was one of them, but I didn't loose the data. I only lost $50! I too backup data weekly, but my corruption started a year ago, which I didn't realize until the real problem surfaced, and took me 3 weeks to find which messages are causing the problem. The symptom I had was PM5 creates massive vm until memory error occurs at indexing. Before that, I was having slow PM performance. I posted that a couple times, but no one guessed it was caused by the DB corruption. The solution was to export into PM4, reindexing the DB in PM4 then import back to PM5. I was so proud I found this after 3 weeks of agony. Before I moved to PM, when you have DB corruption, it was the end of it. Other email clients have no solution to retrieve corrupted DB as far as I know and from my experiences. As matter of the fact, the reliable DB was my primely reason switching to PM from OE and Eudora. I only wish PMSalvage app, which costed me $50 had money back guarantee since it's not only worked but also wasted my 3 days because of its slow performance and copy protection design :-( ** From what I saw how the corrupted messages and its indexing were, I do have a strong feeling that my DB corruption was caused by attachment links of the outgoing messages because I move PM DB folder between machines. I sent a feature request for an option to disable attachment linking on outgoing message. I know, this isn't going to be an easy implementation. -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] <[PROTECTED]> <[PROTECTED]>
