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/ Message reply created with The Bat! 3.99.3 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

