Hi Naomi

I hate to inform you that your email database has been corrupted.  In sincerely 
hope that you have a recent backup of your email database, or that you did not 
keep very many email within your bn.  If you have followed various threads on 
this list, you will know that you are not, under any circumstances, supposed to 
reset, turn off, or let your machine's batteries go flat.  This includes when 
your bn is in the process of deleting, moving, copying, or saving email, 
emptying the trash, or freeing database space.  Such a huge topic as email 
database corruption can hit it home that even though we may not believe certain 
email threads apply to us, we should read them to see if they hold any helpful 
info for us, or in this case, prevent this very frustrating experience to 
happen again.

Naomi, follow the steps below and you will be started fresh with a new, and, 
unfortunately EMPTY email database.

Go to the main menu and press f for the file manager.

Hit d for the directory option.

Select the flash disk as your drive, and keylist as your folder.
Press space with x (read with x) so that all files are viewed.

Press e to jump to the files beginning with e.

When pointing to the file called email folders.cdb, press backspace with c 
(control with 8) and press y to confirm.

Next, press e from the main menu to enter keymail.

Press w to write an email.  You will hear, "database does not exist.  Create 
one?" Answering yes will create a brand new email database.  All of your 
previous folders will be there, however, your email will not.

Again Naomi, I know how incredibly frustrating this can be, as I've experienced 
it myself.  Lessons like this only teach us, the very hard way, to backup 
backup backup every single day, and to never, ever, if it can be avoided, turn 
off, reset, or let your batteries go flat while working in keymail unless it is 
absolutely necessary.  HTH, Laura


"Neither of us [Yoko and I] want to make the mistake that Gandhi and Martin 
Luther King did, which is get killed one way or the other.  Because people only 
like dead saints, and I refuse to be a saint or a martyr." (John Lennon, 1969)


>------ original message ------
>from: "Naomi Soule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Braillenote] Problem with Email

>I downloaded my email the other day, and when I began to read it, my BN
>froze, and I couldn't erase the msg.  Then I reset the machine.  Now all my
>email is lost, and when I try to download email, I get a msg that says
>"operation complete" with astrics after the message.  Any ideas?

>Naomi



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