Hello Nick Dutton,
> Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
> written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
> could perhaps disable "write caching" on the external drive?
> It's under the disk's properties, then Hardware->Properties->Policies.
> This will ensure that writes are committed immediately to disk. It's
> supposed to reduce performance, but I've never noticed any impact when
> I use it on my second *data* drive.
This was set, but the power was removed during a write to several
message bases. They're gone, so it is back to the week old backup.
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