Hello Andrew, On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:01:50 -0400 GMT (02/Aug/09, 6:01 AM +0700 GMT), Andrew Webber wrote:
AW> I've been using The Bat! for some time and have been having an ongoing AW> problem with corrupted mail folders. (The Bat! v4.0.38, with on-the-fly AW> encryption active.) AW> It may be that I never quite cleaned up the problem, I'm not sure. AW> Typically when I ran the Maintenance Centre, it would find lots of AW> errors in lots of folders, then I'd end up with empty folders. :( I AW> guess I get part????.bin files, though I haven't done anything with AW> them. The problem with on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) is that you can't do anything with them. I have not managed to import or access the mails inside. AW> I've got several .TBK backups available, and I have 32 part????.bin AW> files in various folders. What's the best way to get the most files AW> back? Uninstall TheBat! and reinstall as "Plain". Do not use OTFE. If you now restore from backup, your mails will be there. If the manitenance center resilts in *.bin files, then you can rename these files to .EBB and import into TB!. AW> I'm thinking I should restore all the backups, good and bad, then run AW> Maintenance Centre again and let it purge the dupes and create yet AW> more .bin files. Then, import from the .bin files (RIT told me to do AW> that, though I'm not completely clear on the procedure since they said AW> to rename as MESSAGES.TBB [presumably MESSAGES.EBB?] and import, AW> though I guess not from their current folders). Obviously, you would have to move them first, because the file names already exist in that folder. However, in my experience it does not work with OTFE, but they might have changed something in the meantime, so I suggest to try this first before you uninstall and reinstall. AW> Does this seem reasonable? Will restoring from a backup overwrite AW> what I already have Yes. AW> (if so, what do I do?)? I hope you leave messages on the server. AW> And is there a way to avoid this happening again and again? In fact, it shouldn't be happpening. I suggest you check your harddisk for mechanical failures, I think FDISK does the job but please wait for experts here to contradict me. AW> I'm not now sure whether everything was cleaned up once, then went AW> bad again, or if I never really got the badness fixed. My guess would be either your haddisk or a strong magnet (such as a loudspeaker) close to your computer. -- Cheers, Thomas. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 4.2.9.4 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.9.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
