can you give more specifics? you opened a v3 database in BBEdit and as a result your v4.1.3 database disintegrated? do you have any other backups? download v3 of PM and try opening that old database in that.
---marlyse ------------------------original message(s) follows------------------------ >I have PM 4.1.3. > >Looking for an old email I had inadvertenly deleted (from May) I tried to >open PM message database from v3 which I was using at the time, in a text >editor, BBEdit. > >The whole PM 4.1.3 disintegrated and I was left with no alternative but >to start from scratch. >Have lost everything, address list.....the lot!! >Anyone got any ideas? remedies?? > >Stan Lord > > >

