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 Anthony G. Atkielski,
> Spike writes:
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>> 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
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
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 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.
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