Hello István,
I can't do this because on my old computer The Bat's datafiles were
on the C drive. On the new computer there is not enough room on the C
drive to put all the e-mail data and it has to go on the D drive.
Isn't there a way to do a global change on the absolute paths of all
file attachments? It's absolutely obsurd that you can do a global
change on where e-mails are located but not where the attachments are
located - if I'd know that it couldn't do that I'd never have started
using The Bat, even if it is the best e-mail program I've ever seen!
Without a way to change, now I"m going to have to keep my old
computer up and running indefinitely so I can get to all those files.
Damn.
> Hello Jason,
> Friday, February 25, 2000, 9:12:33 PM, you wrote:
JE>> - The Bat doesn't seem to be
JE>> finding any of my file attachments. They're there (I copied over the
JE>> attachments folder with everything else in the account) but they're
JE>> not showing up on the message.
JE>> New attachments that've come in after I started using this computer
JE>> are fine, but the attachments on old messages are not showing up. This
JE>> is a major problem for me since I have a *lot* of archived files that
JE>> I cannot afford to lose.
> Mails with attachments include the absolute path to your attachments.
> So if you have changed the path, those mails still point to the old
> attachment folder.
> The safest way would be to
> - export all your mails received *since* you first moved The Bat!
> - copy the message base to a backup folder; don't delete this until
> *everything* is OK at the end of this procedure
> - uninstall The Bat! and delete all its subfolders
> - install The Bat! to the old location (same directory structure, and
> all mail copied back to where it was)
> - copy saved message base from backup folder to the newly installed
> (and soon to be uninstalled) The Bat!
> - happily find all attachements
> - export all mail received *before* you first moved The Bat!
> - reinstall The Bat! to desired new path (no mails yet since just
> installed - apart from RITLabs greeting)
> - import everything from the exported files
> This procedure does, however, change the dates of the imported mails
> to the current date if my memory serves me right.
> As to tracer's comment, hex-editing the messages would result in
> message garbage (tried it once myself), because the length of each
> hard-wired path is also included in the message base.
> Hope this helps.
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