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Today I decided to try The Bat. I've been using Eudora since at least 1997 and I successfully imported my message base but the given the difference between Eudora and The Bat I need to do a fair amount of housekeeping. I have 6 email accounts and I imported all 100,000 messages into on account. When I tried to move a folder containing  7 mailboxes and 2000 messages to another mailbox using folder properties and changing the parent folder it seemed to work, but since then the messages are no where to be found. First it sad they were in the new folder but I couldn't open the folder to see them. So I quit and re-started and now it thinks there are no messages in the new folder and 2000 messages in the original folder.  But, there are no messages in either. The new folder is gone fr om it's new parent but back wh ere it was, the sub folders are still there but all of them are empty.

I'm sorry, It's just me, I somehow or another always do things that break software.  It just seemed a lot easier than moving one sub folder at a time.

So, what do I do. I can always re-import them to the right place but if there are really there it would be much easier.

Ira
 
 
 
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First locate the mail directory, TB will tell you where it is when you in the menu
Options -> Preferences -> System -> Mail directory
Now close TB.
If there are files called messages.tbb and messages.tbn in the folder matching with your your new destiny and those files (especially the messages.tbb file) are big enough to contain 2000 messages then the messages are in the destination folder. You'd best try to delete the messages.tbn file (that's an index file)
If there's no big enough messages.tbb file then you may have mixed up names or TB might refuse to accept existing folder names.

The easiest way to move the contents from one folder to another (empty) folder is by creating a new folder in TB and afterwards copying/moving both messages.* files from spource to target. With easiest I mean the easiest way without copying/moving them via TB.

Background info:
The file structure for TB is that each account has its own directory in the mail drectory. Every folder in an account has its own folder in the matching account directory. And nested folders have the nested directory structure. (Unless you're using an encrypted  mailbox
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Thanks,

So, the folder structure is there and the messages are in the folders but TB can't see them. Which means something telling it to look down the directory structure is missing.

So I renamed the missing folder, created it in TB, then moved all of the folder and mail into that folder. Still no luck.
So where does TB store it's mail folder structure and how do you make it recreate a damaged structure.

I realize for an averaage user this bug will probably never rear it's ugly head, but it's making it awfully depressing to move from Eudora to TB.

Ira
 
 
 
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So I gave up and decided to import it again. But I can't figure out how to import a folder into a folder, it put all 10 mailboxes on the same level as inbox. I wanted them one level down. I have to use the Import wizard which forgets where my Eudora files each time which makes it even more annoying every time I get it wrong and have to try again.

Ira
 
 
 
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Why can't I move a folder from one account to another without it ending up in the Inbox of the target account?

Ira
 
 
 
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Let the Import go where it will. Then use the SHIFT CONTROL combination with the arrow keys to put them EXACTLY where you want them
 
 
 
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