Jack,
> NB> I have similar problem with IMAP folders, when I give too many commands > in a row, i.e. - Delete message from Inbox - Empty trash. > > I'm using POP. Will this make a difference? Yes, Its completely different. - The default & usual setting of the pop protocol will wipe messages from the server once received. - What you do with messages afterwards is not sent back to the server, so there is no sync issues Can you copy / move good messages to another folder ? If you can access only more recent messages (than the ghost), you can try to invert the order in the message list (click on the date column header), so that earlier message are above the faulty one. If yes, then you can save the good messages elsewhere, then delete the folder with the ghost, in file explorer. The bat will recreate an empty base file on start up to witch you can copy good messages back If no, then messages not backed up may be hard to recover Is your message base encrypted? If no, the files containing the message base are quite straightforward to find in explorer. They are organised in folder matching "The bat" folder organisation. You can copy the folder (files in windows file explorer) to a backup location. Hence if you have problems trying to fix the issue, you will be able to recover the base to try another fix by simply copying the original message base files back. This is also true for an encrypted base, but file & folder names are mangled, so they are tedious to find. Base file are for each "The Bat" folder two file. One with the messages, one with an index of the messages. There can be Somme more, that are backups, created routinely by the bat. These are copy of the normal files, with changed extensions I am writing from a different computer (no Bat), so I cannot give details of the file extensions out of memory Have you tried the built-in maintenance tool? Best Regards, Nick ________________________________________________ Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
