Re[2]: "Repair Message Base" doesn't work
MW> Sergey- MW> Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 2:36:06 PM, you wrote: SK>> I can only suggest trying "The Bat! Message Recovery" tool: SK>> http://savenger.com/download/tbrec.rar. Hello Mark, Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 2:51:48 PM, you wrote: MW> And short of that, try renaming a copy of the .tbb file to .uue, open MW> it with WinZip, and see what comes up. Thank you! Thank you! It worked opening it as a .UUE file! I had to change all the filenames from .TXT to .EML first, but then when I imported them they all showed up! Thank you, everyone, for all your suggestions! Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: "Repair Message Base" doesn't work
DS>> When I delete the .TBI file, all the message disappear from the inbox DS>> folder. Am I supposed to replace it with something? Here's what I've DS>> done so far... Hello Paul, Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 12:07:47 PM, you wrote: PC> try the Fllder menu- Maintenance. Top left option is repair ;) PC> it just happened to me today when I started TB, it asked me if I wanted PC> to fix it! I've tried this about seven times now. I keep getting this message: Messages recovered: 59, damaged parts (part.bin) saved: 0 Processing finished. 1 folders processed When I go back to the inbox to access those messages, TB asks me again if I want to repair the message base... even though I had just "repaired" it. Any idea what the "(part.bin)" means... and/or is this a clue regarding some other action I should take? Thanks! Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: "Repair Message Base" doesn't work
AM> DW Susan wrote: DS>> Created a new local folder and copied both the .TBB and .TBI files DS>> into the new folder. After restarting TB, all the messages show up in DS>> that new folder... but I still can't open any of them. When I deleted DS>> the .TBI file and restarted TB again, the messages don't even show up DS>> as being there. Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 11:38:03 AM, you wrote: AM> This is likely an irretrievable situation through graceful means since AM> TB! would normally read the .tbb file and rebuild the tbi (index file) AM> from the .tbb file. This likely means that the .tbb file is badly AM> corrupted. Is the .tbb file of the size you'd expect considering the AM> number of messages in it. Yes, it is. The .TBB file is 528k and the inbox shows all the messages as being in there. However, if I click on any of those messages I get the error message that the message base needs to be repaired. Repairing it, though, doesn't make a difference -- I still can't access the messages. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: "Repair Message Base" doesn't work
Hello Sergey, SK> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:18:07 -0700 you [DS] typed: SK> You didn't specify whether you had an IMAP or local folder damaged. If SK> it's an IMAP folder, deleting the .tbb file will not harm your SK> messages since they are kept on the server. SK> Once again, this is not going to work for any of your local folders. SK> Please, make sure that the damaged folder is an IMAP one. Unfortunately, it's a local folder. Do you have any ideas on how to recover the messages from a local folder? Thanks! Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: "Repair Message Base" doesn't work
DS>> Any ideas on how to repair this folder's message base? The TBB file DS>> is 528k, but I haven't put any limits on the number of messages that DS>> can be stored in this folder... nor have I ever purged it. Hello Stefan, Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 11:58:03 PM, you wrote: ST> Try to delete the .TBI file - it seems like it's damaged... When I delete the .TBI file, all the message disappear from the inbox folder. Am I supposed to replace it with something? Here's what I've done so far... Created a new local folder and copied both the .TBB and .TBI files into the new folder. After restarting TB, all the messages show up in that new folder... but I still can't open any of them. When I deleted the .TBI file and restarted TB again, the messages don't even show up as being there. Thanks! Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: "Repair Message Base" doesn't work
SK> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:58:56 -0700 you [DS] typed: SK> [...] DS>>Messages recovered: 54, damaged parts (part.bin) saved: 0 DS>>Processing finished. 1 folders processed DS>> However, it hasn't repaired the problem. I still can't access any of DS>> the messages in this folder. DS>> Any ideas on how to repair this folder's message base? Monday, June 7, 2004, 10:43:47 PM, you wrote: SK> I had a similar problem with one of my IMAP folders and resolved it by SK> simply removing the .tbb file you mentioned. I wouldn't want to delete SK> the .tbb file for a local folder, though. Thanks, Sergey. When I delete the .tbb file, though, won't I lose all the emails? I need to be able to access the messages. Should I copy the contents of the .tbb file into a new file and rename it "messages.tbb" or is there some sort of import procedure for recovering those emails? In other words, how did you remove the .tbb file and then recover the message base? Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html