Hello Jason,
Friday, February 25, 2000, 9:12:33 PM, you wrote:
JE> - The Bat doesn't seem to be
JE> finding any of my file attachments. They're there (I copied over the
JE> attachments folder with everything else in the account) but they're
JE> not showing up on the message.
JE> New attachments that've come in after I started using this computer
JE> are fine, but the attachments on old messages are not showing up. This
JE> is a major problem for me since I have a *lot* of archived files that
JE> I cannot afford to lose.
Mails with attachments include the absolute path to your attachments.
So if you have changed the path, those mails still point to the old
attachment folder.
The safest way would be to
- export all your mails received *since* you first moved The Bat!
- copy the message base to a backup folder; don't delete this until
*everything* is OK at the end of this procedure
- uninstall The Bat! and delete all its subfolders
- install The Bat! to the old location (same directory structure, and
all mail copied back to where it was)
- copy saved message base from backup folder to the newly installed
(and soon to be uninstalled) The Bat!
- happily find all attachements
- export all mail received *before* you first moved The Bat!
- reinstall The Bat! to desired new path (no mails yet since just
installed - apart from RITLabs greeting)
- import everything from the exported files
This procedure does, however, change the dates of the imported mails
to the current date if my memory serves me right.
As to tracer's comment, hex-editing the messages would result in
message garbage (tried it once myself), because the length of each
hard-wired path is also included in the message base.
Hope this helps.
--
Best regards,
Istv�n
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