Good morning, all:
Tuesday, September 10, 2002, 3:06:24 PM, Roelof wrote: RO> Hallo David, RO> Op dinsdag 10 september 2002, 19:06:28, schreef David R. Austen: >> I then renamed (and so hid) "messages(no file extension)." When the >> Bat restarted it did create another file with the name, "messages." >> But that is also now still empty. RO> There ought to be two of those messages files, one with a tbi RO> extension and one with a tbb extension. If your explorer is set to RO> "don't show extensions" it should say something like TBB file in the RO> 'file-type' column. Yes, it did and does show the file type. Cheers. RO> (I'm using a Dutch Windows version, so I'm RO> guessing about the English) RO> However, the only places where your messages can be within TB are the RO> messages.tbb and the Trash folder. Since you didn't mention trash, I RO> suppose there wasn't an extraordinary amount of messages. Yes, good idea. I have now checked Trash and it seems quite normal - just a few messages put there each day, and not those hundreds of September messages that are now missing. RO> Therefore RO> the only place should be messages.tbb. My inbox contains about 150 RO> undeleted and 900 deleted messages (that's why regularly compressing RO> is a good idea) and is about 22 MB. Mine is 2.03 mb, this morning. (That's normal for just 1.5 days of messages) RO> What's the size of your messages.tbb file (also the renamed one) that RO> ought to give you an idea about the number of messages, not counting RO> large attachments. I found no .tbb file yesterday morning when I discovered my Inbox empty. I then made a copy of the existing .tbi file (17kb). Now there are two new files (tbi, tbb), and I am still receiving mail normally. >> Your question: If I am not mistaken, I have kept the Inbox set to >> compress the Inbox folder each time I quit The Bat. But I do not >> regularly compress the *other* mail folders. RO> Compressing the inbox on exit is a must, you can see that on mine. (I RO> do compress on exit) But you should consider it for all folders that RO> regularly have messages deleted. OK. And my Inbox is still set to "compress." >> Any other ideas about finding those hundreds of Inbox messages? RO> Scandisk creates file####.chk (#### is a four digit number) files in RO> the root when finding errors on a disk. You could try opening those. RO> When they're containing messages you'd see that soon enough, since TB RO> doesn't encode it's message base. Finally, looking at Windows 98SE recycle bin, I see messages.tbi files there three times. Once at 12:53 yesterday. Of course, I would never put any "messges" files in recycle. I wonder what has happened 3x. I appreciate your kind assistance here. Best regards, David -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
