My Reply follows quote. On 07/12/2002 17:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabriel) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I've used emailer for a few years, and didn't realize that rebuilding the >database is a maintenance thing that improves performance. So I decided >to do it, using the simple (forget the exact term) option (the upper >radio button in the rebuild dialog box). The rebuild progresses very >slow (my database is 34MB in size) and when very partially complete I got >a total system freeze requiring a forced restart. I let DiskFirstAid run >and got a message that my disk is damaged and it couldn't repair it. >After OK'ing the message my Blueberry ibook (system 9.0.4, Emailer V2.03) >started up fine. I then restarted with my system disk and ran >DiskWarrior, which found damages in emailers database and index. Upon >restart I verfied that I have a second database and index called >"(incomplete)", and Emailer is running fine with the database seemingly >intact. > >So, what happened? Or more important, what do I do? (btw, temp incoming >is empty.) > >Thanks, >Gabriel ------------- Rebuilding may or may not be necessary. If you get a lot of traffic but delete most of it after reading, you database probably won't grow too fast. If you get a lot of traffic and wait months before deleting it, then you might be able to reclaim a bit of disk space by doing a rebuild.
When Emailer does a rebuild, it makes a "backup" of your database and indes files. These become marked as "old" when the rebuild is done. In your case, I suspect that you should increase the amount of memory allocated to Emailer before attempting the rebuild. Also, it could be adantageous to not have other applications running that might interrupt the rebuild process. I believe you can just trash the "incomplete" files and try again. Ken Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
