-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan B. Bayer [JBB] wrote:'
JBB> My inbox normally has a few thousand messages. Now it has less JBB> than 100 messages. Ooops! What's your disk space like? Are you short on it? Do you defrag your disk regularly. Is your system problematic in any other way? JBB> I do periodic backups using the internal Backup mechanism. This is good though backing up your mail bases separately would be better. If you have an archiving tool with CLI support then you could create a batch process and use the system scheduler to do unattended, scheduled, compressed backups for you. In this way you would have the flexibility you wish for below. JBB> Is it possible to restore just one folder? I don't think so. It's been a long time since I've done a restore procedure but as far as I can remember, it will only allow you to restore major components like an account/s, address book etc. JBB> Can that restore be done as a merge (so that the current JBB> messages aren't lost)? I'm not sure on this one. JBB> If not, can I restore one folder giving it a new name? No. JBB> I just tried to restore the account. It returns an error message: JBB> Cannot restore message base of the folder \\Bayerfamily\Inbox I assume the restore procedure aborted at this point. This is one of its weaknesses and again why I do my own thing. From my RAR archives, I can choose what I wish to restore without worrying that a corrupt mailbase will get in my way. JBB> My guess is that the Inbox folder is damaged; Before all this JBB> started I got a message saying that it was damaged and needed JBB> to be recovered. What can I do to fix this? In the two instances I had corrupted archives, the popup message offered to attempt a repair. It didn't work in both instances. :( JBB> How can I verify that the folder is actually in good shape? The folder is in good shape. It's just that the message base in it isn't. JBB> What I've done for now is to rename the account, restore the entire JBB> account, copy all the messages from the Inbox in the restored account to JBB> the real account, delete the restored account and then rename the JBB> original account back to what it should be. This is a good work around but I would have done it differently since I wouldn't recommend continuing to use a message base that has been damaged. I would have copied the remaining messages from the real accounts inbox to the restored accounts inbox. I would then shut down TB! and go via explorer to my mail directory. In my mail directory, I would delete the .tbb and .tbi files from the inbox of the real account and then copy the .tbb and .tbi files from the inbox folder of the restored folder to the real accounts. I would then restart TB! and delete the restored account. In so doing, I now have a brand new, *undamaged*, message base in my real accounts inbox. The new message base contains all the messages from my backup as well as all those that were retrievable from the damaged base. - -- Allie C Martin \ TB! v1.62/Beta1 & Windows XP Pro List Moderator / PGP Key - http://pub-key.ac-martin.com ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE9YNnaV8nrYCsHF+IRAvxKAKDTiyLNcmQnIqDDeMHoWXz/jdbOKACg5gzS 3O/RDhJBeRNkOLdUxQGRs3c= =9f1f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
