Hi Neal, Saturday, April 26, 2008, 2:05:06 AM, you wrote:
> Hi Bob, >> 1. What could cause the .tbb file to become so corrupted it was >> unreadable by Windows (I do regularly use the folder maintenance >> feature); > Are you using any kind of defrag in the background (as a service)? I > can almost guarantee running Diskeeper and using on-the-fly-encryption > will eventually ruin the message base. I realize you are not running > OTFE, but maybe look for something of that nature. No other answer > than that. Non-encrypted TB! file corruption has not been an issue for > a very long time. I believe you have hit on it. This article from Microsoft could be helpful to anyone else here who may get .tbb files corrupted, particularly in Win XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941715 Please read the whole kb above, but I call your attention to this: ***************************** SYMPTOMS After you restart a Windows XP-based computer that uses a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk drive, some data on an NTFS file system partition may become corrupted. This problem may occur during shutdown if the computer is using a utility that calls the FSCTL_MOVE_FILE API. For example, the FSCTL_MOVE_FILE API is frequently used by third-party disk defragmenter programs. ********************************** The utility mentioned is used by both Diskeeper and PerfectDisk, I am told by one of their manufacturers. I just checked. My two hard drives (40 GB and 80 GB) are both parallel ATA drives, but the main board has serial ATA channels as well. For now, I am NOT having Diskeep defrag my hard drive partition where I store all mail files (including The Bat!) and all documents. I hope this can be helpful to someone here in preventing a .tbb file corruption like I experienced some days ago (my inbox). -- Take Care, Bob -- Using The Bat! 4.0.24 (beta) on Windows XP 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
