Hi, Thomas... Thanks for your help.
I found an extra file in my directory folder along side the MESSAGES.TBB & .TBI. It was called batxyz.tmp. I renamed it to MSG2.TBB and tried to import it. Although it tried, it ended up doing nothing other than creating a MSG2.TBI file. The TBB was 111MB; the TBI created in the import process was 2.5MB. However, the import screen never went away and after about 15min I just closed The Bat. I then tried to open the new TBB file with MS-Word, to no avail. I then tried using WordPad and found my emails along with undisplayable text. I'm not sure how to recover them without painstakingly cutting and pasting. Any other ideas? Jean JG>> I just got a message base error and selected the repair option. It JG>> said it found two damaged messages. Nothing was saved. All of my JG>> messages were gone. I closed TheBat and reopened it and they are still JG>> gone. Is there any way I can get my messages back? Some of them are JG>> support for legal issues. This is version 3.95.6 > In the directory for this folder, you will find three files: > messages.tbb, messages.tbi and some *.bin file. The latter contains > your former (damaged) mailbox. You can view it with a text editor (not > everything will make sense, but you get an idea that this contains the > "lost" mails. > You can import this file with the import wizard (Tools / Import / From > TheBat message base TBB). I'm not sure whether you have to renmae the > file to .tbb first, I don't think so, but try it out. > NB: This will work only if you use "plain" message base, not > "on-the-fly encryption" (=OTFE). If your mails are important, never > use TB's internal encryption functionality. > -- > Cheers, > Thomas. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
