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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:22:00 +0200

Cannot restore Restore not possible... in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
for a whole account, backup the entire folder
\account_name\

for just messages & folders for an account, backup all the subfolders under \account_name\
Subfolders names correspond to folder names defined in theBat. Inside each subfolder there are 2 files
MESSAGES.TBB - that's the message base
MESSAGES.TBI - not sure what this is for, but these files are smaller so you may backup them as well

only account setting
\account_name\*.* ,excluding subfolders
(or exclude *.tbb *.tbi)

global settings
\*.* ,excluding subfolders
30 October 2007 12:22:00, bigg one.

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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:11:35 +0200

Cannot restore Restore not possible... in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
If I backup with an external backup program, which files do I need to backup to get just messages and folders...and which ones to get program settings
30 October 2007 02:11:35, Rick Prevatt.

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Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:12:26 +0200

Cannot restore Restore not possible... in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
theBat built-in backup tool is not good - it's simply not reliable.
A much better and simple way is to just archive your whole mail folder, using some archiver app like WinRar.
Most archiving apps can be set to process only files modified in the last X days, so you don't have to backup again and again message bases that are already backed up and not changed since last backup.
I know this does not answer your question, but this way you'll not need to ask such questions from now on.
28 October 2007 02:12:26, bigg one.

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Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:33:14 +0300

Cannot restore Restore not possible... in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
That link doesn't work. Is there another working link anywhere. thanks Rick
28 October 2007 00:33:14, Rick Prevatt.

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Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:05:45 +0300

Cannot restore Restore not possible... in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
do not know about repair tool, but You can use tbkDigger utility, which can extract files from TBK archive and import them back.

http://www.thebat.cz/stazeni/tbkdigger.zip
05 June 2006 11:05:45, Marek Mikus.

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Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:32:53 +0300

Cannot restore Restore not possible... in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Hi!
I'm using TB for handling about 16 accounts. Two months ago I started creating backups. First full-backups, then incremental to save time (create an Update to an existing Archive).

Three days ago my harddisk had a Problem writing data, so I had to restore my accounts to a different PC.

Most of my mails are back, but on some updates the message:"Cannot restore message base of the folder \\Seth\Amazon.com" appeared. So I tried to get all possible messages from my .tbk files back, but it seems that there is something wrong with some messages. If I uncheck the accounts, which "create this message", the other accounts can be restored without any problem.

Is there any tool to repair the .tbk files? It is no problem to miss one or two mails, but it seems that I miss on different accounts aproximatly 40 messages.

best regards
seth

04 June 2006 12:32:53, Frank Gruber.