Karel,
>You don't have to import the messages again. Just use the export function >to see where it hangs, so you can determine the problem message and then >delete it as described. As a result you should end up with a 'clean' >powermail database. > yep, did exactly that. but i'm unable to delete 1 message, which still locks up indexing. script 'delete message immediately doesn't work. rebuilt database. any way to remove it manually from the file with bbedit perhaps? ddv
