Hello,

Am/On Wed, 14 May 2008 15:59:43 +0100 schrieb/wrote Derry Thompson:

>I've tried a low-level rebuild, a database compact both of which failed.

this has always worked for me in the worst case.

>
>I can't copy the mail database, it gets to 1.04 GB of 1.64GB and fails.

this sounds like a disk issue.
Did you check your disk with disk utilities?
Can you copy it on the terminal level - probably not, if the Finder won't do.

>
>I'll try an export of the entire database later (I'll run it overnight)
>and see if that works.

this will probably also fail.

For the worst case there is a special recovery utility for the PowerMail
database:
<http://www.zygoat.ca/products/pmsalvage/>

>
>Powermail seems to be working ok on the damaged database, albeit without
>any search capability.
>
>Any other ideas?

got a backup?

cheers,

Matthias


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