Hello The Janitor,
> I know it's only one example of your need to keep a large db of
> messages but why not just keep a single text file
> of registration keys and add to it with each new product?
I do this too, however this file is now quite enormous in and of
itself. I keep software registrati
26 August 2005 - 06:48
Hello Spike,
Thursday, August 25, 2005, 11:21:54 PM, you wrote:
S> One frequent need is to
S> refer back to software registration keys from years gone by.
I know it's only one example of your need to keep a large db of messages but
why not just keep a single text file of
Hello Spike,
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 you wrote in
S> Each new
S> laptop I get (every 14 months or so) requires I re-install literally
S> dozens of programs for which I may have received the activation key 5
S> or more years ago.
I Copy all those mails into an "Important" folder. I park them so they
Hello Anthony,
> It worries me a bit that e-mail programs in general seem to make very
> little provision for selectively archiving or restoring message base
> content. Eventually you end up with tremendously large mailboxes, and
> if there's no way to selectively archive and extract stuff and
>
Hello Robert C Wittig & everyone else,
on 25-Aug-2005 at 13:22 you (Robert C Wittig) wrote:
> It is really my favourite MUA, but I think it was developed in a
> non-*nix-friendly language, so unfortunately there will probably never
> be a *nix release for it.
Time to WINE. ;-) You can run TB on
Hello Anthony,
Thursday, August 25, 2005, 1:36:55 AM, you wrote:
AGA> Another happy user of TB, I gather?
I'm running an ancient version... 1.60q.
I had been using Linux Red Hat as my Internet Gateway for quite a
while, so I never bothered to upgrade TB!, as it was just lying
dormant on my Win2
Robert C Wittig writes:
> Long time no see, Anthony!
Another happy user of TB, I gather?
> This is true. I am in the habit of doing a full back-up of TB! daily,
> to a secondary, data-only hard drive.
It worries me a bit that e-mail programs in general seem to make very
little provision for sel
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:57:52 -0500, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Unfortunately I was not at home until AFTER the 4
>hours life of the UPS battery, so I could do nothing about the issue
>after the fact.
>
>Suggestions??
Make backups every hour: simple, scheduled script will do.
--
Happy fla
Hello Roelof,
Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 6:29:55 AM, you wrote:
RO> Please include a signature delimiter in your messages. This consists
RO> of a , i.e., a '-- ' by itself on a line.
RO> This allows your readers, when replying, to quote your text without
RO> the signature and list footers since
Hallo Robert,
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:12:41 -0500GMT (24-8-2005, 13:12 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:
RCW> This is true. I am in the habit of doing a full back-up of TB! daily,
RCW> to a secondary, data-only hard drive.
RCW> -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/
RCW> .
RCW> __
Hello Anthony,
Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 10:47:36 PM, you wrote:
AGA> Well, the only real protection against this sort of thing is more
AGA> frequent backups. Otherwise, obviously you risk losing whatever
AGA> you've done since the last backup.
Long time no see, Anthony!
This is true. I am in
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:44:47 +0200, Anthony G. Atkielski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scandisk is not even part of XP.
Well, whatever it's called now ... I haven't run it in quite some
time.
Ah, you simply meant the disk checker. Lets avoid confusion of the
innocent people here:
- chkdsk.e
Spike writes:
> I backup the entire 100GB drive weekly, but the failure happened a
> few hours BEFORE the scheduled Sunday weekly backup. :-(
Well, the only real protection against this sort of thing is more
frequent backups. Otherwise, obviously you risk losing whatever
you've done since the la
Alexander S. Kunz writes:
> Scandisk is not even part of XP.
Well, whatever it's called now ... I haven't run it in quite some
time.
--
Anthony
__
Using The Bat! v3.5.25 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
___
Hello Anthony G. Atkielski,
> Spike writes:
8< Snippage
>> TB! told me the message bases were corrupted. The folder item
>> 'maintenance' was greyed out, and TB! said to run chkdsk.
> Just from a power failure?
Yes, with the program continuing to run for TWO hours with no data
drive.
>> I ra
Spike @ 2005-8-23 1:35:05 PM
"Oops!! Power Failure"
> If there is a way to get it, I'd surely like to reload this, and
> TBBETA and/or TBOT if I can get it. I will restore the backups I
> have and see what I am missing. Perhaps some kind soul may have the
> area whe
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, at 01:35 PM, Spike wrote:
> As my message bases total over 45GB at present, shutting down TB! (all
> accounts and folders set to compress!) takes just over 6 hours. Not
> an option, without having something to SHUT DOWN TB! from within Task
> Manager. This is what I
Hallo Roman,
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:42:11 -0400GMT (23-8-2005, 20:42 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:
RK> Holy cr*p! Have you considered deleting some e-mails or storing
RK> attachments in separate directories? How many messages is that?
RK> scratching his head,
RK> Roman
RK>
Hello Anthony G. Atkielski & everyone else,
on 23-Aug-2005 at 21:39 you (Anthony G. Atkielski) wrote:
> Scandisk will run on XP
Scandisk is not even part of XP.
> although it requires exclusive access to the device
So does chkdsk if the partition is locked - like the boot partition.
--
Best
Jernej Simoncic writes:
> Scandisk might have been the culprit - it's not a tool meant for NT/2k/XP
> (though I have a hard time believing it ran at all - unless your disks use
> FAT32).
Scandisk will run on XP, although it requires exclusive access to the
device, so if you run it, XP actually sc
Spike writes:
> I have experienced a great loss due to an island-wide power failure
> that lasted for just over 5 hours yesterday. I had the complete TBOT
> and TBUDL lists going back about 4 years. The power failure lasted
> longer than my UPS's and I LOST the entire mail folders for these
> li
Hello Roman,
> Holy cr*p! Have you considered deleting some e-mails or storing
> attachments in separate directories? How many messages is that?
425,345 as of two minutes ago. I'm doing a maximum mail index
capacity test {gryns}. Every e-mail I have sent or received since
1995 +/- a month or
On 8/23/05, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As my message bases total over 45GB at present, shutting down TB! (all
> accounts and folders set to compress!) takes just over 6 hours.
Holy cr*p! Have you considered deleting some e-mails or storing
attachments in separate directories? How many me
Hello Nick Dutton,
> Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
> written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
> could perhaps disable "write caching" on the external drive?
> It's under the disk's properties, then Hardware->Properties->Policies.
> Thi
Hello Chris,
> You computer should be configured in such a way that when the UPS
> reports that it has x percent left, the computer shuts itself down.
> Now, since you have a laptop, things are slightly different.
As my message bases total over 45GB at present, shutting down TB! (all
accounts and
On 8/23/05, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suggestions??
In addition to what Chris suggested (have computer turn itself off if
there's less than, say, 20% left on your UPS), backup more often (ok,
also has been suggested) and:
leave your mail on the server for a week or so after retrieval. TB
Hello Jernej Simoncic,
> Scandisk might have been the culprit - it's not a tool meant for NT/2k/XP
> (though I have a hard time believing it ran at all - unless your disks use
> FAT32).
It was the 'tools' error checking under WinXP Pro. After exiting TB!,
it allowed me to run the error checking.
Hello Jernej,
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, you wrote:
>> Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
>> written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
>> could perhaps disable "write caching" on the external drive?
>> It's under the disk's properties, then
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 18:30:35, Nick Dutton wrote:
> Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
> written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
> could perhaps disable "write caching" on the external drive?
> It's under the disk's properties, then
Hello Spike,
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, you wrote:
S> Suggestions??
Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
could perhaps disable "write caching" on the external drive?
It's under the disk's properties,
Spike @ 2005-8-23 9:57:52 AM
"Oops!! Power Failure"
> Suggestions??
You computer should be configured in such a way that when the UPS
reports that it has x percent left, the computer shuts itself down.
Now, since you have a laptop, things are slightly different.
Also, nightl
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 16:57:52, Spike wrote:
> TB! told me the message bases were corrupted. The folder item
> 'maintenance' was greyed out, and TB! said to run chkdsk. Well, this
> is now called SCANDISK under Win-XP (hint, developers!).
No, it isn't. NT-based Windows never included sca
Hello tbot/tbudl'ers,
I just ran a mail run and I noticed I am also missing TBBETA as well.
:-(
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Hello tbot/tbudl'ers,
Apologies for the cross-post, but I have a major issue I wanted to air
on BOTH lists, as they are both involved.
I have experienced a great loss due to an island-wide power failure
that lasted for just over 5 hours yesterday. I had the complete TBOT
and TBUDL lists going ba
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