On Thursday, May 19, 2005, 04:53, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Well. I installed TB new, and when the question came whether I want to > restore from a backup, I answered "yes". It took a little while, and > then an error message came "Error reading file *.tbk". Tried again, no > use.
Which again proofs that the backup function should either be fixed or removed. I have brought this up before and been answered that it mostly, maybe almost always, work, but I have seen too many complaints that it doesn't to trust such a statement. If there is one thing a email program must not do, it is loosing data. Not when running, not when fetching mails and certainly not when trusting the internal backup routine to transfer the entire message base from one computer to another. As a friend of mine stated, loosing a folder worth of emails in the old 1.2 or 1.3 days, he would never again fire up TB! and he hasn't. I understand him. If I lost data now, I have taken the necessary precautions to bring it back and I know TB! well enough to know what to do, but if I had loose data in the beginning of my TB! career, I would not write this today. So again, either make the backup routine fool proof, or remove it. Making if more proof could start with implementing a mandatory validity check just after the backup has been done. TB! should never ever create a backup without checking it's integrity, and this should be done with the same code which is used when restoring, to make sure restoration is always possible. -- Regards, Marcus Ohlstr�m Using The Bat! v3.5 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 PGP Public Key at http://www.canit.se/~marcus/pgp.asc ________________________________________________________ Current beta is (none) | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
