Hello István,
I can't do this because on my old computer The Bat's datafiles were
on the C drive. On the new computer there is not enough room on the C
drive to put all the e-mail data and it has to go on the D drive.
Isn't there a way to do a global change on the absolute paths of all
file attachments? It's absolutely obsurd that you can do a global
change on where e-mails are located but not where the attachments are
located - if I'd know that it couldn't do that I'd never have started
using The Bat, even if it is the best e-mail program I've ever seen!
Without a way to change, now I"m going to have to keep my old
computer up and running indefinitely so I can get to all those files.
Damn.
Hello Jason,
Friday, February 25, 2000, 9:12:33 PM, you wrote:
JE - The Bat doesn't seem to be
JE finding any of my file attachments. They're there (I copied over the
JE attachments folder with everything else in the account) but they're
JE not showing up on the message.
JE New attachments that've come in after I started using this computer
JE are fine, but the attachments on old messages are not showing up. This
JE is a major problem for me since I have a *lot* of archived files that
JE I cannot afford to lose.
Mails with attachments include the absolute path to your attachments.
So if you have changed the path, those mails still point to the old
attachment folder.
The safest way would be to
- export all your mails received *since* you first moved The Bat!
- copy the message base to a backup folder; don't delete this until
*everything* is OK at the end of this procedure
- uninstall The Bat! and delete all its subfolders
- install The Bat! to the old location (same directory structure, and
all mail copied back to where it was)
- copy saved message base from backup folder to the newly installed
(and soon to be uninstalled) The Bat!
- happily find all attachements
- export all mail received *before* you first moved The Bat!
- reinstall The Bat! to desired new path (no mails yet since just
installed - apart from RITLabs greeting)
- import everything from the exported files
This procedure does, however, change the dates of the imported mails
to the current date if my memory serves me right.
As to tracer's comment, hex-editing the messages would result in
message garbage (tried it once myself), because the length of each
hard-wired path is also included in the message base.
Hope this helps.
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