Hello The Janitor,
I know it's only one example of your need to keep a large db of
messages but why not just keep a single text file
of registration keys and add to it with each new product?
I do this too, however this file is now quite enormous in and of
itself. I keep software
Robert C Wittig writes:
Long time no see, Anthony!
Another happy user of TB, I gather?
This is true. I am in the habit of doing a full back-up of TB! daily,
to a secondary, data-only hard drive.
It worries me a bit that e-mail programs in general seem to make very
little provision for
Hello Anthony,
Thursday, August 25, 2005, 1:36:55 AM, you wrote:
AGA Another happy user of TB, I gather?
I'm running an ancient version... 1.60q.
I had been using Linux Red Hat as my Internet Gateway for quite a
while, so I never bothered to upgrade TB!, as it was just lying
dormant on my
Hello Robert C Wittig everyone else,
on 25-Aug-2005 at 13:22 you (Robert C Wittig) wrote:
It is really my favourite MUA, but I think it was developed in a
non-*nix-friendly language, so unfortunately there will probably never
be a *nix release for it.
Time to WINE. ;-) You can run TB on
Hello Anthony,
It worries me a bit that e-mail programs in general seem to make very
little provision for selectively archiving or restoring message base
content. Eventually you end up with tremendously large mailboxes, and
if there's no way to selectively archive and extract stuff and
Hello Spike,
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
S Each new
S laptop I get (every 14 months or so) requires I re-install literally
S dozens of programs for which I may have received the activation key 5
S or more years ago.
I Copy all those mails into an Important folder. I
26 August 2005 - 06:48
Hello Spike,
Thursday, August 25, 2005, 11:21:54 PM, you wrote:
S One frequent need is to
S refer back to software registration keys from years gone by.
I know it's only one example of your need to keep a large db of messages but
why not just keep a single text file of
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:44:47 +0200, Anthony G. Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scandisk is not even part of XP.
Well, whatever it's called now ... I haven't run it in quite some
time.
Ah, you simply meant the disk checker. Lets avoid confusion of the
innocent people here:
-
Hello Anthony,
Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 10:47:36 PM, you wrote:
AGA Well, the only real protection against this sort of thing is more
AGA frequent backups. Otherwise, obviously you risk losing whatever
AGA you've done since the last backup.
Long time no see, Anthony!
This is true. I am in
Hallo Robert,
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:12:41 -0500GMT (24-8-2005, 13:12 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:
RCW This is true. I am in the habit of doing a full back-up of TB! daily,
RCW to a secondary, data-only hard drive.
RCW -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/
RCW .
RCW
Hello Roelof,
Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 6:29:55 AM, you wrote:
RO Please include a signature delimiter in your messages. This consists
RO of a dashdashspacereturn, i.e., a '-- ' by itself on a line.
RO This allows your readers, when replying, to quote your text without
RO the signature and
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:57:52 -0500, Spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately I was not at home until AFTER the 4
hours life of the UPS battery, so I could do nothing about the issue
after the fact.
Suggestions??
Make backups every hour: simple, scheduled script will do.
--
Happy flappin'!
Hello tbot/tbudl'ers,
Apologies for the cross-post, but I have a major issue I wanted to air
on BOTH lists, as they are both involved.
I have experienced a great loss due to an island-wide power failure
that lasted for just over 5 hours yesterday. I had the complete TBOT
and TBUDL lists going
Hello tbot/tbudl'ers,
I just ran a mail run and I noticed I am also missing TBBETA as well.
:-(
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--
Warmest tropical wishes,
Spike
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On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 16:57:52, Spike wrote:
TB! told me the message bases were corrupted. The folder item
'maintenance' was greyed out, and TB! said to run chkdsk. Well, this
is now called SCANDISK under Win-XP (hint, developers!).
No, it isn't. NT-based Windows never included
Spike @ 2005-8-23 9:57:52 AM
Oops!! Power Failure mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suggestions??
You computer should be configured in such a way that when the UPS
reports that it has x percent left, the computer shuts itself down.
Now, since you have a laptop, things are slightly different.
Also
Hello Spike,
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, you wrote:
S Suggestions??
Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
could perhaps disable write caching on the external drive?
It's under the disk's properties,
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 18:30:35, Nick Dutton wrote:
Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
could perhaps disable write caching on the external drive?
It's under the disk's properties, then
Hello Jernej,
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, you wrote:
Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
could perhaps disable write caching on the external drive?
It's under the disk's properties, then
Hello Jernej Simoncic,
Scandisk might have been the culprit - it's not a tool meant for NT/2k/XP
(though I have a hard time believing it ran at all - unless your disks use
FAT32).
It was the 'tools' error checking under WinXP Pro. After exiting TB!,
it allowed me to run the error checking.
On 8/23/05, Spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suggestions??
In addition to what Chris suggested (have computer turn itself off if
there's less than, say, 20% left on your UPS), backup more often (ok,
also has been suggested) and:
leave your mail on the server for a week or so after retrieval. TB
Hello Chris,
You computer should be configured in such a way that when the UPS
reports that it has x percent left, the computer shuts itself down.
Now, since you have a laptop, things are slightly different.
As my message bases total over 45GB at present, shutting down TB! (all
accounts and
Hello Nick Dutton,
Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not
written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you
could perhaps disable write caching on the external drive?
It's under the disk's properties, then Hardware-Properties-Policies.
This will
On 8/23/05, Spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As my message bases total over 45GB at present, shutting down TB! (all
accounts and folders set to compress!) takes just over 6 hours.
Holy cr*p! Have you considered deleting some e-mails or storing
attachments in separate directories? How many
Hello Roman,
Holy cr*p! Have you considered deleting some e-mails or storing
attachments in separate directories? How many messages is that?
425,345 as of two minutes ago. I'm doing a maximum mail index
capacity test {gryns}. Every e-mail I have sent or received since
1995 +/- a month or
Spike writes:
I have experienced a great loss due to an island-wide power failure
that lasted for just over 5 hours yesterday. I had the complete TBOT
and TBUDL lists going back about 4 years. The power failure lasted
longer than my UPS's and I LOST the entire mail folders for these
lists.
Jernej Simoncic writes:
Scandisk might have been the culprit - it's not a tool meant for NT/2k/XP
(though I have a hard time believing it ran at all - unless your disks use
FAT32).
Scandisk will run on XP, although it requires exclusive access to the
device, so if you run it, XP actually
Hello Anthony G. Atkielski everyone else,
on 23-Aug-2005 at 21:39 you (Anthony G. Atkielski) wrote:
Scandisk will run on XP
Scandisk is not even part of XP.
although it requires exclusive access to the device
So does chkdsk if the partition is locked - like the boot partition.
--
Best
Hallo Roman,
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:42:11 -0400GMT (23-8-2005, 20:42 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:
RK Holy cr*p! Have you considered deleting some e-mails or storing
RK attachments in separate directories? How many messages is that?
RK scratching his head,
RK Roman
RK
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, at 01:35 PM, Spike wrote:
As my message bases total over 45GB at present, shutting down TB! (all
accounts and folders set to compress!) takes just over 6 hours. Not
an option, without having something to SHUT DOWN TB! from within Task
Manager. This is what I do
Spike @ 2005-8-23 1:35:05 PM
Oops!! Power Failure mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If there is a way to get it, I'd surely like to reload this, and
TBBETA and/or TBOT if I can get it. I will restore the backups I
have and see what I am missing. Perhaps some kind soul may have the
area where the gap
Hello Anthony G. Atkielski,
Spike writes:
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TB! told me the message bases were corrupted. The folder item
'maintenance' was greyed out, and TB! said to run chkdsk.
Just from a power failure?
Yes, with the program continuing to run for TWO hours with no data
drive.
I ran
Alexander S. Kunz writes:
Scandisk is not even part of XP.
Well, whatever it's called now ... I haven't run it in quite some
time.
--
Anthony
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Using The Bat! v3.5.25 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
Spike writes:
I backup the entire 100GB drive weekly, but the failure happened a
few hours BEFORE the scheduled Sunday weekly backup. :-(
Well, the only real protection against this sort of thing is more
frequent backups. Otherwise, obviously you risk losing whatever
you've done since the
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