Hello tracer and Thomas,
Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 11:22:08 PM, you wrote regarding my post:
>> As the subject suggests, I have a garbled message data base on my main
>> account and a badB083.tmp file in it's place (38,396 kb). Can TBUDL
>> and / or Stefan pull my fat out of the fire? The Inbox's
>> subdirectories are OK, but the inbox itself (with nearly 2500
>> messages) is blitzed. No messages are visible. Suggestions? shift +
>> cntrl + alt + l didn't work.
t> visible from inside the bat?
Not visible from inside the bat. The total number of messages is there
but 0 new (i.e. unread) ones, which is untrue.
t> have you tried using explorer to go to that inbox and reading it with
t> lets say notepad or quickview??
It opened immediately in a word processor, but when I tried to go to
the end of the document to see how long it was, it raced on to 9999
pages (probably all that will load). On going to page number 5000
(half way) it was still blank. I then had trouble leaving the WP (it
wanted to save the file to disk which it couldn't due to the space
available) and the WP remained unresponsive on reopening, so I opened
the file in another WP (Word 6), this time as read-only and have 5659
pages (Word makes more pages). Too many to want less than a data base
showing header data.
t> have you tried a reinstall of the bat on top of the one already there.
I decided to wait until receiving the benefit of TBUDL and/or RITLabs
opinions first.
t> Before fixing anything or attempting I would first make sure there is
t> data in that box.
It's all there.
t> if all of it is text, I can send you a utility which will read the
t> box and extract by choice just the text.
That I've already got. The problem with the number of pages is
probably resolvable. In the second WP (Word 6) I DO show text at 5000
pages. (I hadn't filtered for quite a while - all filters were manual
on that account).
t> It may be a big mess but at least you can read it.
It would be unusable for my purposes.
t> other chance is to import that inbox into a different program or even
t> back into the bat.... if you have enough space for it.
The 38,396 KB isn't there in all partitions. I will have to move
badB083.tmp to the virtual memory's or the OS's partition and import it
from there. All the info is there but the files delimitations were lost,
which mixed the internal data.
>> I run mbrepair.exe? Do I have to put it somewhere in particular first?
>> I copied it to the subdirectory where the badB083.tmp file is but
>> nothing happened on activating it.
TF> Put it in the "main" bat directory, here it is c:\progra~1\thebat~1\
DH> I never did update from 1.39 and the date on the mbrepair.exe is
DH> 1/03/99.
TF> The mbrepair utility should be fine upto and inclduing 1.41, as
TF> the message base format didn't change.
DH> Perhaps I should mention that some time before this, my folders wound
DH> up duplicated.
DH> I just made an active filter to transfer my incoming mail to the "New
DH> Inbox" subdirectory. Just tried it and it works fine.
TF> Is your HD fine in those sectors with the bad message files? Have
TF> your run Scandisk lately?
I'm running it now. But tracer is probably right right in suggesting /
assuming that this is related to shortage of free space. And TB is 259
mb a 509 mb partition with 11 mb free. I am going to have to invest in
a hard disk and change to fat 32 in order to run larger partitions w/o
losing much space to big clusters. But this is still a TB! message
data base problem also and shouldn't have become corrupted.
Defrag found errors (of course) and couldn't continue but I changed
the configuration and it's running again at 14% in I:\
t> Could be crosslinks, autofixed folder, running out of disk space
t> and many things but I would say first try to look whats in that box
t> with notepad . Maybe it hasnt got ANY data... maybe it can be
t> extracted... Note notepad will force wordpad to load it
Wordpad won't load but the data's there - so much of it that I need
it accessible via the header info.
It's 4 am and I have a busy day tomorrow. This came at a bad time.
Douglas
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