Hi all,
Well I checked my mail today and about half way through it reported an
error. I pressed OK and the alert came back. I dismissed literally
dozens of these messages but they wouldn't stop. So I force quit PM. I
then relaunched and held option and did a rebuild but when it was done I
ended up with 0 messages!!! All my folders were still there but there
were no messages in any of them. Ack! I check that 'view only unread'
was not chosen.
In my PowerMail Files folder there is a Message Database.old file which
is very close to 2 GB (2 147 482 894 bytes-- very close). If I remove the
..old extension and launch PM it rebuilds indexes but then gives the error:
Class=DB ; what = 4; when = 7; err = 37
I believe this was the original error I saw also. If I try a low level
rebuild it gives the error:
Class=DB ; what = 100; when = 100; err = 493
These message so are vague, its hard to troubleshoot!
I'm guessing it's complaining about the 2 GB limit. I guess I've been playing
with fire
being so close to 2 GB for so long, but I always hope
that tomorrow there will be a new PM without that limitation. (After all,
the 64-bit File Manager APIs were introduced in Mac OS 9, 7 years ago!!!
Hello CTM!)
I have a backup of course, but its a few weeks old.
Any suggestion on how I can get my messages back?
Thanks!
Sean
(via good ol' pine :) )
