On Mar 24, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Barbara Needham wrote:
Robert Morrison on 3/24/07 said
I'm new to powermail...having just switched from apple mail. I just
spent about a day and a half getting about 20,000 mail messages
systematically transfered over from mail into powermail, setting up 8
email accounts, locations and quite a few filters. Everything was
working great on my mac book and then I went to power up powermail to
check email and I got an error message while opening that there was a
problem in the database. I tried a couple of times...but got the
same error.
I then tried to rebuild things by doing a option/command while
starting powermail. I checked everything except the low level
rebuild. It took about an hour and what I got was nothing like what
I had before. All my accounts and filters were gone as were location
settings. All my folders were also gone and all that was there was a
giant folder which looks like it was created from some apple mail
files...but was not what I had before.
Please help...I'm panicked at best. I appear to have lost several
days work as well as all my email since I changed over. Should I do
a low level rebuild? I have no idea what happened.
Do you still have your apple mail?
Yes
Was it from panther or tiger?
Tiger
how did you switch?
I made folders in mail with the messages I wanted in powermail and
then imported those folders into powermail. I then moved the
messages around in powermail...including putting some of them in the
in tray.
Do you know how big your pm database was when working? There is a 2
gb limit.
I noticed that my message database was about 700mb, but my address
book database was 2gb...which was kind of weird. I'm not sure what
the difference between the message and address book databases are.
Robert
