Re: All The Bat! files disappeared?

2010-10-19 Thread aweb...@wwwebbers.com 

 

On October 19, 2010 at 2:03 AM aweb...@wwwebbers.com aweb...@wwwebbers.com
wrote:

 Thanks, it makes sense that it would re-create. In this case it would mean
 that
 literally dozens (actually  hundreds I think) of messages.tbb files were
 quarantined all at the same time. 
 I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials and while I don't know exactly what
 folder it uses, its list of Quarantined files is 1, dated 3/9/2010 (so not
 sure if March or September, probably the latter) and it also warns me you
 haven't run a scan in a while. I have the feeling it may have updated
 versions
 on the weekend too, so it's possible there's a connection but with no
 indication
 of finding problems in Oct/10 I'm not sure.
  

 I looked again and from within The Bat!, only the 4 standard folders (Inbox,
 Outbox, Sent, Trash) are visible in all accounts, including the main account
 that has a couple of other folders visible from within Windows Explorer. 
 =aw
Following up to my own response, I did a serach on C: for MESSAGES.TBB and found
1300 of them. I actually did this on the weekend but I was on my internal 13
screen and the first couple of screens were all fairly old.
 
Of 1318 files MESSAGES.TBB, 19 are in C:\Users\AW\My Documents\The
Bat!\*\Inbox\ (the new ones, all 4K except the main account at 19K). But the
other 1299 are in C:\Users\AW\My Documents\Transit\The Bat!\... and have a
variety of sizes and dates. On the weekend I thought Transit referred to a
move from one version of The Bat! to another, but I just realized that My
Documents\Transit is supposed to be documents on public transport (system maps,
etc.).



Is it possible that I dragged the folder The Bat! INTO Transit, which is
next to it? Would that have had this result? I suspect it would. If the above
user error is in fact the cause, can I just delete the entire My Documents\The
Bat! structure that's there (with only 3 emails), drag My
Documents\Transit\The Bat! up a level, and re-launch The Bat! ? Or do I need to
re-import or something?

 
Thanks again!
=aw

Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information:
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Re: All The Bat! files disappeared?

2010-10-19 Thread Jim Kyle 
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On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, at 10:54:02 AM, aweb...@wwwebbers.com wrote:

 Is it possible that I dragged the folder The Bat! INTO Transit, which
 isnext to it? Would that have had this result? I suspect it would. If the
 aboveuser error is in fact the cause, can I just delete the entire My
 Documents\TheBat! structure that's there (with only 3 emails), drag
 MyDocuments\Transit\The Bat! up a level, and re-launch The Bat! ? Or do
 I need tore-import or something?

That definitely sounds like what happened, and it also shows that your
older messages are all still intact.

Dragging the folder back up to its proper level should put things back as
theyy were before the move, but you may find that initially all the
sub-folders seem to be empty. I had that experience when I copied my
installation from one machine to another. However I discovered that when I
clicked on any of the empty folders, it immediately was re-populated.
Apparently there are internal indexes that don't get built when moving the
mail system, but do get built on the first attempt to access the folder.

It was quite disconcerting at first, but all turned out well once I had
found out how to trigger the rebuilding action!

One caution: instead of deleting the present top-level structure, I would
simply rename it to something like My Doicuments\tb.new so that you don't
lose the messages that it contains. You can them import them back into
their rightful locations after restoring the original files.

-- 
Jim Kyle

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