Hello Jean,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:27:26 -0700 GMT (15/08/2007, 14:27 +0700 GMT),
Jean Goddin wrote:

JG> I found an extra file in my directory folder along side the
JG> MESSAGES.TBB & .TBI.  It was called batxyz.tmp.

*.tmp? This is not what I expected.

JG> I renamed it to
JG> MSG2.TBB and tried to import it.  Although it tried, it ended up doing
JG> nothing other than creating a MSG2.TBI file.  The TBB was 111MB; the
JG> TBI created in the import process was 2.5MB.

The *.tbi is just the index. I'm surprised the messages were not
imported.

JG> However, the import screen never went away and after about 15min I
JG> just closed The Bat.

Maybe it was a difficult operation... try again and let it run.

JG> I then tried to open the new TBB file with MS-Word, to no avail.  I
JG> then tried using WordPad and found my emails along with undisplayable
JG> text.  I'm not sure how to recover them without painstakingly cutting
JG> and pasting.

JG> Any other ideas?

I still think your lost mails are in that file. Let the import wizzard
run its course without aborting, and let's see what happens.

-- 

Cheers,
Thomas.

Gluehlampen brennen heller, wenn man sie vor dem Einschrauben aus der
Verpackung nimmt.
http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/

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