Ah, I get it - had not paid attention to the full thread. I do understand the issue with the Recent Mail window.
How I overcome this limitation is to shut down PM manually after reading my email for the last time on a day - mostly I remember now as I have gotten into the habit, but if not, the script does it's job. ---marlyse ------------ former message(s) quotes: ------------- >Hi Marlyse, > >Actually, I also use a shutdown script. The person who initiated this >message was reluctant to shut down PM because they didn't want to lose >their Recent Mail Window. Guess it's a choice they'll have to make. > >Jim > >>CTM clearly stated in the past to NOT have PM open when doing a backup >>and that this can leave you with a corrupted database. CAN, not >>necessarily does. >> >>A while back somebody was so kind to post a little script which will >>shut PM down and that you can have SuperDuper run as part of the daily >>backup before the real backup begins. Since I run this, I feel MUCH more >>comfortable that I can trust my backed up data and my backed-up PM >>databases will be integer when I need them.