Tom, Thanks to you (and to all) for replying to my distress signal.
>>I just upgraded to Leopard. I cloned my hard drive, did a clean >>install, then copied the files back into Leopard from the clone. > >I'll bet your clone was made w/ CCC instead of SuperDuper. I had no >PM DB problem using Migration Assistant from a FWHD SuperDuper clone. I used Intego's Personal Backup X4. It seems to have worked pretty well with everything BUT PowerMail, but then I am still trying to sort out other issues and really haven't gone "spelunking" for other problems at this point.......but just now looking through the dates in my Applications folder, for example, everything looks very much as it should. >>When I went to open PowerMail it told me that it needed to upgrade >>the database to be compatible with PM 5.5, that I should make a >>backup copy of the mail file and then proceed. Instead of seeing >>warning flares and hearing warning sirens, I went ahead and did >this. >>Then when PM finally opened, the newest mail showing in the database >>was dated October 22, 2006......13 months ago. > >What happens when you use the clone as your Startup Drive? This is the frightening part; it gives me the same OLD database, which has my head spinning and me wondering WTF is this curse around me and Mac OS upgrades. When I installed Tiger on top of OS X 10.3, it became a huge disaster, I lost a lot of info and wound up having to do a clean install. This time I wanted to avoid that so I did the clone thing (which, BTW, has worked for me BEFORE) and here I am staring another big loss in the face. >Maybe this will help someone solve your problem. I can only hope that this is the case. Thanks again to you and all for replying. Cheers, John >Since SuperDuper is not compatible w/ Leopard yet, I did a CCC clone >a week after I installed Leopard and all was well. Last weekend I did a >"Copy selected items" using CCC to update my clone. For grins, I >started up from this clone and I got the same message you did about my PM DB. >I then erased my clone and did a full cloning and when I used the FWHD >as my Startup (as a test), all was normal with PM. > > > > >Tom Miller >.................................................. >"The only time we see the middle of the road is as >we run from side to side." R.O.Clark >...................................................
