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Lost my emails again - finished with BAT
 
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"Error in reading database, do you want to repair it ?" As I know from several times before, "repairing" the inbox folder means erasing everything from it. :evil:  I am absolutely FED UP with this programme. How this can be calles a "professional" email programme and I even paid for it ? What is the use of 1000+1 "esoteric" features when you can lose your emails out of nothing, every now and then ?

My only question is - how to transfer this email database (or rather - what has remained from it) to some normal email client (like thunderbird etc.) ?

PS: I made a "repair" and the result is all the emails from last 2 weeks disappeared  :evil:  
Edited: Ivo Sedlacek - 02 September 2008 11:54:14
 
 
 
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I'm not sure how you manage to use mail on a regular base. Either you've got an unstable system or you're powering you're system off while stuff is still being written to disk. The latter is the only reason why I ever had any problems (in more that eight years of TB usage) and that was done deliberately.

If you've lost two weeks of mail, you must have overridden TB's default backup system for every second day.

Anyway, export your mail to the unix mailbox format, that's the format thunderbird uses, so it should be able to import that.
Select a folder and then: tools -> export messages -> unix mailbox
You've got to export one folder at a time.
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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
 
 
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How exactly to do this export ? When I do tools/export/unix mailbox , I have to find the stored mailboxes and the process seems to overwrite them ? So the best thing would be to copy all the mailboxes somewhere else and then only to "export" them ?
 
 
 
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Browse to the path where you want to place the file and manually enter a name.
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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
 
 
#5
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I'd have to say - touch wood, I haven't ever had that program, in a lot of years..
Cheers
MS
 
 
 
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Hello,

Some people do anything with their PC, and then accuse, Windows, The Bat! ... not work well. The first culprit is the user.
 
 
 
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How do you know, wise man ?  I am not sitting at PC for the first time, so I know quite well what I am doing. My system is completely stable and I have the PC on most of the time. Everything else works without a problem, only the Bat makes problems. It is for about the third time I lost my emails (I do not count reseting and disappearing mail folders etc.). And as you can see in this forum, the same terrible thing happened to so many people aroun. So if anything is unstable and culprit it is the Bat. (nothing like this ever happens in thunderbird, outlook etc,)

How, on earth, someone can design a programme that can simply lose lot of datas by itself ? Losing emails within an email programme is quite a serious issue.

Such things must be completely safe and prevented by the programme itself. If any small breeze around can erase emails in any moment (and repeatedly), such programme is not well made ...
 
 
 
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What OS and file system do You use? Does this happen with inbox? Do You have an antivirus and if yes, do You have TBB files excluded from checking? Antivirus (AFAIK  kaspersky did this) can corrupt integrity by removing virus infected data from binary msgbase...

Sorry, but I saw many corrupted Outlook PSTs, OE's DBXs or Mozilla inboxes (many similar cases of corruption can be found in google, there are many apps fixing such corruptions, so they exists for all email apps), every "file" in filesystem can be corrupted, mainly in FAT32, where any OS problem can cause file corruption, if was file opened or under writing during such problem.
 
 
 
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