Dietmar Harms [Di, 16. Sep 2003]: >I tried to upgrade my PowerMail 4.1.3 to 4.2. After a message saying that >my database has to be "actualized" and that I should make a backup before >(what I did), PowerMail 4.2 started indexing about 6.000 messages. After >a short time the progress bar freezes.
How long have you been letting it rest? I must admit that during the beta testing of PowerMail 4.2, I (how it turned out some time later) wrongly accused the application for freezing during indexing one of my two environments (=databases). However, as it turned out, there were some mails in the DB that contained uuencoded files in the mail body (they did not get extracted to attachments since PM does not detect uuencoded data in the mail body), some messages several MB in size. It was these messages that increased the estimated indexing time from an (until then) estimated 15 minutes to roughly two hours (IIRC). But the indexing succeded nevertheless. Maybe you can check whether this might be a reason for the "crash" you are experiencing? I don't know if during indexing a single message at the initial rebuild, PM is multithreaded. Maybe it is not for consistency reasons and does not process events during that period, thus appearing red in the process list. But this is only a wild guess, I'm definitely no expert at this Regards, Christian.
