Hi, > >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.
This hard drives was brand new in Jan 2008. No issues with the drive that I can see. >Did you check your disk with disk utilities? Mayne :) >Can you copy it on the terminal level - probably not, if the Finder won't do. No, doesn't copy any which way. >>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/> That doesn't work with the newer database format though. > >> >>Powermail seems to be working ok on the damaged database, albeit without >>any search capability. >> >>Any other ideas? > >got a backup? Yep :) Cheers -- Derry Thompson g l o d e r w o r k s | Design - Hosting - Programming <http://www.gloderworks.com> + 44 (0) 1562 631430 t + 44 (0) 7976 802487 m
