I have been using The Bat for years without any problems. I am running Windows ME and recently upgraded to the Christmas Edition (2.03.3). Last night I opened The Bat and started receiving my new messages. On the last message, message 88 out of 88, it gave an error like "Could not store message, saving as C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\bat81C4.TMP." (This is not the precise wording of the error message but it is pretty close.) And it would continue very slowly saving messages in C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ with different filenames. I got tired of watching it do this, so I shut it down and restarted the program. After restarting, it did the exact same thing: received 88 messages, the same error, and started writing messages to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP.
Next I downgraded to 2.00.6 but I could not access any of the over 1,600 messages in my inbox. The message count was correct but the inbox appeared completely blank. The other folders were fine. (By the way, I definitely had View/Display/All Messages selected.) I downgraded to version 1.62 but it was the same. I opened the file for my inbox, MESSAGES.TBB, in a text editor and could see my messages that way. My guess is that the format for this file was corrupted and The Bat could no longer read it. I was fortunate that I had a full backup from December 30, 2003. I tried restoring the backup using version 1.62 but it just froze. So I completely uninstalled The Bat, then installed version 2.01.3, and restored the backup. Everything is fine now except I lost this month's messages and my address book. I think I lost my address book because unless you change the default, it only backs up Trusted Root CA. Overall the damage for me was pretty minimal because I had a backup but I hope RITLabs looks into this issue. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
