Hallo Alexander, On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:41:39 +0600GMT (5-10-02, 11:41 +0200GMT, where I live), you wrote:
AAG> Something bad happned, so that The Bat dont' want to show AAG> messages (except parked) in Inbox folder.... Might be because you ran a filter that deleted all messages in the inbox or deleted them yourself by accident. Parked messages are ignored when you or your filters start deleting. AAG> But messages.tbb do contains much MORE messages... Deleted messages stay in the messages.tbb until you compress it, they're only marked deleted in the messages.tbi. So let's hope that you don't compress your inbox on exit, because that would mean you'd lose them as soon as you exit TB. (Under normal circumstances it's a very sensible option to have activated, since your messagebase gets real big when you never compress.) You could try to undelete them. There are two ways to handle this. 1) Select your inbox and pick from the menu: folder - browse deleted msgs Now you can view the deleted messages in your inbox and undelete them by pressing the <Delete> key. Or 2) Shut down TB, go to the directory matching your inbox, delete the messages.tbi (since that's the file that stores which messages are deleted) and restart TB. When you select your inbox, TB will automatically create a new messages.tbi. Therefore it'll mark no messages as deleted, nor as read or parked. AAG> Any advices would be very appreciable !!! Well actually I've got two more pieces of advice and since your asking for it. ;-) I read your replies to the messages of Alexander and Miguel and because of those I decided to reply to your original message and not to your reply to one of them. Your habit of top posting (or bottom quoting like other call it) makes it very hard to follow their meaning. You give your answer and below your answer you quote the entire message that you're replying to, leaving it up to the recipient to find out what part of the original message you're replying to. In a one on one e-mail conversation this can be done (even though lots of people don't like that), because your correspondent probably still knows what he wrote to you. But on a list like this with several hundreds of subscribers most recipients will need to spell out the full message to find what you mean. Whereas the preferred style of quoting on this (and other lists) is to quote interspersed. Like this answer of mine. Every remark from you is addressed on it's own right and you'll immediately see what caused me to say it. Your remarks that I don't react on, are skipped in my answer. That brings me directly to the second disadvantage of your quoting style. It quotes everything and so causes unnecessary flow, since lots of subscribers to this list collect their mail via dial-up connections, you're generating extra costs for them by causing them to download a text that isn't relevant and already in their possession. The second piece of advice is: Use a signature delimiter (dash, dash, space, enter) just above your signature. That means that somebody quoting your message with TB (or lots of other good mua's) will skip your signature (and the automatically inserted list footer beneath it) in their reply automatically. Please don't take this advice as a personal attack, but accept it as a well meant advice that could be profitable to you and your correspondents. AAG> 3AHO3A What's that, a radio call sign? AAG> 2:5012/18.2 Oh, a point under Dmitry Vodennikov? What I said about quoting styles was learned on fidonet during the days modems were a lot slower than nowadays. -- Groetjes, Roelof (2:280/1006) ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
