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lost all mails in inbox
 
Hi all,

The other day I was shutting down windows, had a lot of nasty programms running, and the Bat! was compacting folders, when some kind of Windows OS error message appeared (something like "blabla 16 bit blabla error"). When I rebooted, all mails in my Inbox folder were gone. On the HD, in the Inbox folder, it showed only a giant bat1326.tmp file (800 mb or so, could well be the emails I had in the Inbox folder before) and a very small .TBB file (no emails). My guess is now that due to that error during the crunching process was suddenly terminated and the crunched emails are somehow in that .tmp file.
Can you resurrect the emails from that file? Can you help?

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Bernhard

PS: Yes I know I should backup more regularly, and no I 'm afraid I don't remember anything more of that error message..
 
try:
close theBat
rename the small .TBB file to blah.baktbb or alike
rename the bat1326.tmp file to MESSAGES.TBB
start theBat

and yes, as you already know, backup regularly :)
 
Bernhard  Hidding!

What version of The Bat! did you use?

Did you have NTFS of FAT partition where did you keep The Bat! data?
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