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Not really. You could try browsing deleted messages. You could try opening the tbb file in an external editor and saving individual messages in a "Unix mailbox" format. This will require some juggling and the knowledge that each new message should start with a
"From: addr@example.com" line.

I cannot stress this enough:

Do not keep important messages in the Inbox.

The Inbox is the high speed freeway / motorway / autobahn of The Bat! - messages come in and out of that folder every time you run a mail check.

It's not a good idea to use Inbox as a long term message store. Like any high traffic area, if an accident is going to happen, you'll lose the lot.
18 October 2004 06:33:54, Marck Pearlstone.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1028/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1028/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:33:54 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client NEED HELP! broken mail base how to repair broken mail db in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Thank you but I tried that and it didn't help. It just imported 1 message.

Is there any other solution?
17 October 2004 08:45:46, Mark L..]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1008/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1008/ Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:45:46 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client NEED HELP! broken mail base how to repair broken mail db in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
move the file to another directory, rename it back messages.tbb
Start TB
Tools -> Import -> From TB message base

This will offer you the best chance to rescue something.

Since your inbox was 30MB big, I suppose you might not have compressed it often enough, I suggest you might decide to turn on 'Compress on exit' and don't save important mail in the |Inbox, just to avoid troubles in the future. Here's why:

TB manages your messages as a database or to be more precisely: stores
them in a database. This database is organized per folder. Each folder
has a messages.tbb and a messages.tbi file.
The real messages are stored in the messages.tbb (The Bat Base) and to
shorten the access time to the messages additional info is stored in
the messages.tbi (The Bat Index). This additional info can be a flag
you've set to the message, the info whether you've replied to it or
whether you deleted the message.
Deleted? you'll say. Yes. When you delete a message, TB flags the
message as deleted in the index file, but leaves it in the actual
message base. That's because setting a bit in the index is faster than
rewriting the full messages.tbb. In the folder menu you'll see an
option 'browse deleted messages' where you can view and undelete your
deleted messages.
Will TB never delete messages from the messages.tbb? Yes, it can do
that, but that's called 'compressing', you'll see an option 'compress'
in the folder menu. This means that TB will rewrite both your .tbb and
.tbi files and what's deleted is lost 'forever and ever'. You can also
compress folders automatically on closing TB. Since version 1.60 you
can set this for all folders in the account settings. And in the
folder properties you can do this per folder (compress on exit).
TB has also a 'purge'option. In the folder properties you can setup a
maximum number of messages or a maximum age for the messages in that
folder.  That's called purging. Purging is the same as deleting, the
message is flagged as deleted, until you compress the folder. Purging
can be done automatically and manually (from the folder menu)
Note that moving a folder (manual or by filter) will create the
message in the new folder and mark it as deleted in the source folder.
Now you'll see why it is important to compress your folders,
especially those that are seeing lots of messages being deleted or
moved. (Your inbox is an example of them.)

17 October 2004 01:24:02, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1003/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1003/ Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:24:02 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client NEED HELP! broken mail base how to repair broken mail db in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
hi all,

all of a sudden today the bat told me that it can't read my inbox folder and asked me to repair it. and so i did. after restarting the program i couldn't see a single message in the inbox. i have a file called MESSAGES.BCK that's 30MB in size and inside I can see my inbox messages but importing it using any of the import methods did not bring any results.

how do i restore them? please help!


16 October 2004 22:33:56, Mark L..]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1000/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic288/message1000/ Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:33:56 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client