I have enjoyed a pretty trouble free life with TB! for many years. I had a hard drive failure the other day and it was irrepearable. I use TB 4.2.44.2 and I have had to temporarily put it on the D: drive whilst reinstalling Windows XP Pro on the C Drive The Bat produced backup that I set to run every night starts to work, and indeed just using the none database tick boxes all settings and filters are re loadable, but after a minute or two the reading of the 3 gig database backup file ends with an unable to read error. Luckily I had the TB database on the D: Drive and the database was manually copied to a fresh TB install. Now it sort of works, but it tries to create a second */Mail/Zen Account structure. It also shows two lots of View modes, and these are flaky, sometimes not doing what they should. It seems TB is confused as to where everything resides now, or something is corrupted. Is there a way to fix this? I am suspecting a registry issue, or a settings file in the root of the mail directory issue. I also sometimes get exception errors in the bat.exe file when changing View Modes. Filtering sill works fine. Another clue may be that using the Shift /Alt
/Control/L command to find lost folders will sometimes produce a second mail folder diplay, of empty folders, that then upd ate with new mail, instead of the original mail folders. I don't mind re creating View Modes, but would hate to lose the big array of working filters or the databases themselves. What should I look for, rename, or delete to try and get TB understanding where things are again please?
I am told TBS's internal backup and restore mechanism isn't very roust and this is the third time backups have failed to be read properly in about as many years. Trouble is you don't know until it's too late. I have been told of one app to use to just backup the basic file structure, ignoring that it's a mail application, but that presumably won't back up TB!'s registry settings. What are others using? is V5.* any more robust in the backup / restore department? I don't need additional features or IMAP so would rather stay with what I know. Thanks for reading this long mail. I really need to get TB! back on track as soon as possible, all help sincerely appreciated. I am sure the Accounts - Properties - Files and Directories are se t correctly, pointing at the right places.
/Control/L command to find lost folders will sometimes produce a second mail folder diplay, of empty folders, that then upd ate with new mail, instead of the original mail folders. I don't mind re creating View Modes, but would hate to lose the big array of working filters or the databases themselves. What should I look for, rename, or delete to try and get TB understanding where things are again please?
I am told TBS's internal backup and restore mechanism isn't very roust and this is the third time backups have failed to be read properly in about as many years. Trouble is you don't know until it's too late. I have been told of one app to use to just backup the basic file structure, ignoring that it's a mail application, but that presumably won't back up TB!'s registry settings. What are others using? is V5.* any more robust in the backup / restore department? I don't need additional features or IMAP so would rather stay with what I know. Thanks for reading this long mail. I really need to get TB! back on track as soon as possible, all help sincerely appreciated. I am sure the Accounts - Properties - Files and Directories are se t correctly, pointing at the right places.
Edited: - 11 October 2013 13:56:05
It was at a file which it said it couldn't read called "prices.jpg". I thought about it for a while and renamed an existing photo on the PC as "prices.jpg" and manually added it to the Attachments directory in TB. Then the restore of the attachments from the backup file worked to 100%!! Amazing 
One strange thing was a folder in my original set up of The Bat - Mail called "cache" that a HUGE HUGE number of files in it. Is that normal? What are they and should this folder just grow and grow in size? Been a headache, but all seems to work fine now. Just considering my options for none internal to TB backup applications. I no longer trust its own own, to be frank. Any other suggestions as well as Second Copy another TB user has recommended? Many thanks Rick, you are a great asset to this community and it's much appreciated.