>>Who is this While Lady Sead is having trouble with. How can I recognise >>her and what trouble does she cause? > >It's a bug that prevents from indexing your message database correctly, >thus interfering with search function. >Some people never see it, some people can get rid of it and some (like >myself) can't. >I see it a major annoyance, but not something brutal that you should be >afraid for your messages being eaten by an alien lady or something. It's >just you can;t index messages after she appears and these messages are >then skipped while performing search filter.
Old, but this snippet of collected wisdom from Tim's PowerMail FAQ (following). If you did all four options from the PowerMail first aid dialog at startup, rebuilding the index from the File > Database menu is an ever-so-slightly different process. It cures the "Database Error Occurred - Class=DB, what=7, when=9" error which many people had whereas the startup/first aid would not. Last resort, check out Ben Kennedy's PowerMail Salvage <http:// www.zygoat.ca/products/pmsalvage/>. If you can get PowerMail's language encoding sorted out to your satisfaction, and your old database out of the tendrils of the LADY, PowerMail 5 may just work for you! Chris -- <http://home.hpo.net/timm/PowerMailFAQ.html> >11.3 Clean your room, 'cause here comes the LADY! > >Every now and then a certain error pops up. It has come to be called the >LADY error (perhaps LADYbug would be better?) after the cryptic message >that PM displays when it arrives. This error has, so far, only manifested >when performing a search. It doesn't seem to do any damage, but it does >prevent any kind of searching until you deal with her. So, sit back and >take notes, 'cause you're about to be schooled in the proper way of >treating a LADY. > >1. Restart PowerMail. This has worked for others, it might work for > you >2. Restart your computer. If this is too much of a hassle try one/ > some of the following steps >3. Restart PowerMail. But this time, hold the option- command keys > as it starts. This will bring PowerMail's First Aid window up > (didn't know PowerMail could do that? Well, why do you think > I'm here?? \ (^ _ ^) / ). Select some of the choices presented > to you. Since this is a LADY, she has a certain affinity for > the top four check boxes. Use them all, use only one. A LADY > can be fickle... >4. Compact your database. From File -> Database, select "Compact > Database." This could take a while for large databases >5. Rebuild/Update your Indices. From File -> Database, select the > appropriate measure. This may also take a lot of time. Note, > that while my dictionary actually says it is acceptable to > spell the plural form of Index as "Indexes" (as PowerMail does) > I simply cannot bring myself to do it. Maybe it's a good thing > PowerMail doesn't have a built- in spellchecker...
