Before you do any importing into your PowerMail, make a Back up of your PM Mail folder. It's kept in the ~/mail/Powermail File folder. I'd suggest just make a Stuffit archive of that whole PowerMail file folder. Or maybe burn it onto a CD, just to be safe. _ Oh heck, make LOTS of Back Ups, every now & then while you are working with the transfer operation.
I say this because when I was trying to get PowerMail to work after importing many thousands of emails from Claris Emailer into it I had to import & export a whole lot of times from PowerMail. Many times I was surprised to get more than I expected, leaving me with duplicates of a few thousand emails at a time. Oh, and I had to re-make all my Mail Filters each time, since the folders weren't the same folders... Yuk! Rather then delete each one, I dumped the whole mess & reverted to back up, then deleted the messages that I knew I was going to be re-importing again, so as to prevent the dups. I did export a number of times to various formats, including PowerMail export, and unix mailbox. I was just trying to clean up PowerMail after dumping many years of Emailer messages into it. PM sort of choked at first, but after a few tedious days of exorting deleting & importing, I finally go tit working ok. In my case, starting PM with the command & options keys was not helpful - PM would crash during any/all of those operations. My solution was to export ALL mail & everything, Make lots of back up copies so I could revert to any one of them at various stages of repair, then delete all emails in PM, and reimport again. I did make use of BBEdit to look at the exported files, trying to find any odd characters or signs of corruption. But I didn't. However, there was no doubt that somehow certain messages seemed to cause PM real problems. I never could figure out why. Even though I ended up not being able to get all my Claris Emailer messages into PM, I did eventually get past it, and I saved ALL my Emailer messages in the EMA FileMaker database. It took about 3 days just to make that transfer, and I had to baby sit it, waiting for freezes. Hope this helps. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Jim Pistrang's message of 1:45 PM, 2/22/05 >If this doesn't work and you still can't index, I would personally >recommend Emailchemy. You also might try exporting from PowerMail and >then re-importing...maybe it will export the good emails and leave behind >the corrupt ones. > >hth & sorry for your troubles, > >Jim >-- >Jim Pistrang >JP Computer Resources >Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network >413-256-4569 >http://users.crocker.com/~pistrang
