Hello MFPA, Saturday, November 15, 2008, 9:26:37 AM, you wrote:
M> Hi M> On Saturday 15 November 2008 at 2:36:40 PM, in M> <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: >> My wife had messages dated from 10-31 to 11-13 >> disappear from her inbox. All other messages seem to be >> there. There are only 5 messages currently residing in >> the inbox with a received date of Nov. and all were >> from yesterday the 14th. M> Strange. And worrying. I take it not accidentally deleted and residing M> in the trash folder? Or in the folder they disappeared from if not M> "compressed" since - check by selecting "browse deleted messages" from M> the folder menu. When I try that I get "There are no deleted messages in this message base". M> [...] >> I looked on her C: drive in the folder called "The >> Bat!" contained in the "program files" folder but I >> don't see anything in the "The Bat!" folder which would >> seem to contain all messages. M> I think in very early versions of TB! the mail was there. Since I M> discovered TB! at version 2.x the default has been %appdata%\The Bat!, M> which might even equate to %email%. For each mail folder you should M> find a messages.tbb and messages.tbi file (different extensions if you M> use OTFE). The TBB file is the message base and the TBI is the index The folder %appdata% contains nothing relating to TB! and the folder %email% doesn't exist. I'm assuming both folders should be accessed from Windows Explorer which is how I searched the %appdata% folder. >> I use Carbonite as a backup for this computer so >> presumably Carbonite has a copy of the missing messages M> I know nothing about carbonite but I would expect so if a backup was M> made when the messages were present, unless the backup was overwritten M> since they disappeared. Understood, and a concern since Carbonite backs up everything OTF. >> Assuming the location of the messages is known, can I >> simply copy the messages from the Carbonite backup to >> the same location on her C: drive? M> I would suggest renaming the message.tbb and .tbi files currently in M> the folder (in case you need to revert to them) and copying the ones M> from your backup into the folder, then firing up TB! and seeing what M> messages you have. Love to try it if I can ever locate the messages. Thanks for trying to help. -- Best regards, Jack mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using TB! v3.99.3 with K9 v1.28 anti spam Windows XP pro 5.1 Build 2600 - Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
