Hi Marck,
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 2:30:45 PM, you wrote:
MDP> Well, I have near 37000 messages spread over 160+ folders and have
MDP> only ever had problems like those you describe when I have "messed
MDP> about" with the folder structure in both TB and Windows Explorer in a
MDP> less than clearly thought out manner (ahem) :-).
You are ten times as bad as I am! In this instance, however, I have
not been fooling around. I did a clean install of Win98SE. Office
2000 and most of my other regular programs on the 25th of October, and
have for all practical purposes had a stable system with the exception
of the "bad" folders that had to be "fixed"
MDP> I have no suggestions as to why you would be experiencing the need to
MDP> repair folders on a regular basis, although it's not entirely clear
MDP> what you mean by "repair".
I guess that the term is having a "broken message base file" that can
be repaired by running the message base doctor?
MH>> It is not too difficult to repair, but it is a pain in you know
MH>> where, and if it really is a built-in weakness (feature?), why not
MH>> make the reinexing much easier?
MDP> It may be more useful, in the short term, to establish why you are in
MDP> the position of having to repair and re-index folders on a regular
MDP> basis. Also, I believe that the current version of TB will
MDP> automatically re-index a folder if the index file is not present.
MDP> There is no interface to remove a current index to allow such a
MDP> rebuild to occur, so perhaps your suggestion is a good one.
I don't understand it either, but since no other program misbehaves
and I have not been changing folder structures or other things, I
assumed (yes, I know what that means <BG>) that it was a Bat! problem.
Question: how would I re-index a folder that shows 0 messages?
I know that Pegasus (buh..) has the ability to re-index from within the
program, and I think that Mr.Kiselev previously has suggested that it
would be nice if the Bat had a similar facility.
MDP> OTOH, would folder purge / compress not result in a re-index? Or does
MDP> TB use the current index to determine where to purge /compress?
It sounds right to me, be mayby there is a difference between
re-indexing and re-building an index, and what we/I really have been
talking about is "re-building."
Kind regards / Venlig hilsen,
Mogens mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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