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Restoring Single Emails, How to use TB Backup Utility to Restore Individual Emails?
 
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I have had The Bat! for about 8 years -- from version 1.x

I noticed a year or two ago that, all of a sudden, several years of emails disappeared (oldest dated emails).  I am building a new system and I finally need access to those emails (some of them have important information) and I then I thought: I have an old backup that should have the older emails.

How do I restore ONLY individual emails, not whole folders?

Thanks!
 
 
 
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You cannot restore single emails from TB's backups, however you can restore a folder, sel ect the emails you want to restore and delete the rest.
Don't restore to a folder that contains messages, because that will cause those messages to be overwritten.

Note that TB 4.1 and higher doesn't support backups from lower versions due to a change in the message base format.

In case your older backups aren't made by TB, but via an external tool, you can import fr om the messages.tbb file without problems.
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Okay, I have the backups from version v3 or even v2 -- can I install the bat on another machine using an older version and then copy individual emails to the other machine, or would I need to update the v3 installation to v4 AFTER doing a restore with the old emails?  Then I could do a backup and then copy that file to the main machine and then restore them to a separate folder (I didn't know that you can restore to a folder that doesn't exist until you name it in the restore process).

Does this sound like it would work?

Thanks!
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Yep
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My very old version of the bat 1.4? just disappeared. I see all the files, but there is no program in the control panel. When I click on the shortcut, it hangs. I would like to upgrade to the latest version, but I don't want to lose my files and settings. I tried to reinstall the old version, but it didn't take. Do you know what might have happened and if I can restore it?
 
 
 
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