Hi Roel,
Thanks for the tips. It worked perfectly!
I must say, it seems a bit odd that under the import options, there is
no obvious option to import The Bat! format mailboxes. Oh well, I
guess the ctrl-shift-alt-L command works well enough to do the trick.
Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
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Wednesday, December 01, 1999, 11:43:32 PM, Roel wrote:
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> Hello Januk,
JA>> Hello All,
JA>> I was wondering, does anyone know what is the best way of backing up
JA>> the message databases for The Bat! version 1.36? I found the
JA>> directory where all the databases are kept, so I was going to copy
JA>> those onto my backup disk. So supposing I do that, will all my
JA>> filters be saved too?
> if you back up the whole mail-dir & the subdirs, you'll have a back-up
> on all 'critical' settings...
> only things like window-positions and stuff like that will get lost in
> a full-system-crash...
> yes, it'll include mail-filters :-)
JA>> How about restoring the messages if I lose my current message
JA>> database?
> just pull the message-base you need back from the backup & overwrite
> the current (corrupt) one...
JA>> I actually have an example that is confusing the heck out of me. I
JA>> had created a folder for e-mail from friends, and subfolders that were
JA>> a bit more specific. These folders had some messages in them, but
JA>> then TB! announced that they were empty, and so I deleted the folders.
JA>> But I was looking around with my Win95 Explorer and I discovered that
JA>> the folders and the message databases are still there. But for some
JA>> reason, when I try to import using "Import from Unix Mailboxes" But
JA>> TB! won't import them. Ideas?
> use control-alt-shift-L...
> this will search for 'lost'-folders & add (non-corrupted!)
> message-bases to the account
> 'Import from Unix Mailboxes' won't work, cause they are in 'The
> Bat!'-format...
> HTH
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