On 11/18/09 11:21 AM, Dan wrote:
> It's crashed three times on me so far.
> sigh.
>
Sorry to hear that Dan, I have T-bird on 3.0b4 and have never had it
crash, even though it's holding, while running thousands of unread
e-Mails...mostly from this group. And I'm on super slow machine, by
today'
At 11:48 AM -0600 11/18/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
> > Always do your primary backup with nothing else running. With
>> incrementals, it's a judgement call... Backing up files while other
> > apps are running / using the HD, is always a hit'n'miss proposition.
>
>I tried the last t-bird att
Dan wrote:
> At 10:06 AM -0600 11/18/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
>
snip
> Always do your primary backup with nothing else running. With
> incrementals, it's a judgement call... Backing up files while other
> apps are running / using the HD, is always a hit'n'miss proposition.
>
I tried
At 10:06 AM -0600 11/18/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
>Had a thought: could it be that t-bird was rebuilding the folders slowly
>and not showing action with/via the cursor? If the problem shows up when
>I test I'll let it set for 24 hours.
Is possible; I donno enough about the workings of Thunder
Dan wrote:
> At 5:23 PM -0600 11/16/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
>
>> >> Some of the missing data folders seem to lock up requiring force quit.
>> >
>>
>>> How do folder lock up?
>>>
snip
> Pls lemme know when you do - I'm curious to see what's happening.
> Ran a few tests
At 5:23 PM -0600 11/16/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
> >> Some of the missing data folders seem to lock up requiring force quit.
> >
>> How do folder lock up?
>Click on folder/mailbox and clock just sets there. Never shows the
>colored spinner.
Sounds like the folder is corrupted in some way.
Dan wrote:
> At 11:09 PM -0600 11/14/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
>
>> latest attempt. Still missing some messages although folders are
>> showing empty sub folders.
>>
>
> Is Thunderbird running when you're making the backup?
>
> I've got a thunderbird set-up here - and it backs up fine
At 11:09 PM -0600 11/14/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
>latest attempt. Still missing some messages although folders are
>showing empty sub folders.
Is Thunderbird running when you're making the backup?
I've got a thunderbird set-up here - and it backs up fine, fwiw.
You're running the backup f
Dan wrote:
> At 7:55 PM -0600 11/13/2009, Charles Lenington wrote:
>
>> 23:47:52Verifying exclusive access to source volume...
>> 23:47:52Aborting block-level clone, starting over with file-level clone.
>>
>
> You don't want a block-level clone - block for block, *error for
> error
