Hello tbtech, I have one location where four people have experienced disappearing message bases from their folders.
I have carefully examined the situation and this is what I have found: If a user has 'compress folders on exit' selected, and then they get tired of waiting for the compression to end and just shut the PC off or press <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> twice for a reboot, they lose the contents of the folder that was being compressed when they pulled the plug (so to speak). I have successfully found the entire message base in the system temp folder with a name like batxxxx.tmp and restored their folder by copying %temp%\batxxxx.tmp to X:\path\The Bat\Mail\Name\Folder\messages.tbb Close and re-open the bat, and it rebuilds the index and all is fine. I find myself wondering why the original message.tbb file is vulnerable during compression. If the bat is making a temp file to compress the folder, shouldn't it wait until the compressing is done before tossing the original messages.tbb file? I have found that I have had to turn off compress folders on exit for these users because they just won't wait for the compression to finish..... Any ideas or thoughts? or even comments? -- Best regards, Jason Gottschalk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SYO Computer Engineering Services, Inc. 586-286-2557 ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
