Search Results matching tags 'pmm' and 'pmi'

Folder Names

Flosex — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:58:11 GMT

Is there an easy way of obtaining a complete list of the folder names (as created in the Folders window of Pegasus) with the Folder Information names (PMM and PMI) in the C:/PMAIL/MAIL directory, so I can easily identify a specific folder in the C:/PMAIL/MAIL listing, please?

I know I can right click on each Folder name to obtain the Folder Information (PMM and PMI name) for that folder, but as I have over 400 folders, this would take me a very long time to compile a complete list.

The reason I am asking is that I am running Pegasus version 4.52 and recently the programn has been slowing down, despite running it on a newish laptop computer (Windows XP). I am wondering if the reason is because of the large number of folders I have, some of them quite large (my PMAIL/MAIL directory is about 5gB) - I have been using folders for my filing system for the last ten years or so that I have been using Pegasus.

I am thinking of creating a 'MAIL PAST' folder and transfer some of the PMM and PMI files that I rarely use from the C:/PMAIL/MAIL to it, to reduce the number of Folders Pegasus uses when I run the program. If I later need to refer to one of these folders, I can transfer them back from the MAIL PAST folder to the C:/PMAIL/MAIL folder.

However, I need an easy way to identify which PMM and PMI files to transfer to the MAIL PAST folder, hence my question at the start of this posting. I am aware that you can rename both the PMM and PMI file to the same name in the Folders window (to identify it he future), but this would take me a very long time to do with my 400+ folders!

I recall that in earlier versions of Pegasus, the name of the PMM and PMI files was the same as the name in the Folders window, which made identifying particular folders very easy. In fact I still have a few PMM and PMI files named like that from those days, but most of my folders have been created since a random name was used for the PMM and PMI file name.

Thanks for any help and any other suggestions as to what I can do to make Pegasus run faster.

Chris Page (UK)

Old folders don't appear after re-installation

Bernd Rietsch — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:03:56 GMT

Hallo,

I urgently beg your help.

My Pegasus Mail Version 4.41 was running imperfect, it was not possible to "re-indicate" a folder, "pipelining" occurred when sending mails. I therefore uninstalled and reinstalled Pegasus Mail.

Now my 'old' folders and mails are no more visible, the *.PMM und *.PMI files are still existing. Following the recommendation in a former German thread I already deleted the file "Herirach.pm", however my 'old/former' folders and mails are still missing.

How can I restore my 'old/former' folders and mails.

Thank you for your support,

Bernd

Filed under: Ordner Schubladen wiederherstellen Version 4.41 *.PMM *.PMI

A Serious Error has Occured... Use a Undelete Program...

Davesfc — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:27:16 GMT

Hello,

While I'm still kicking myself, maybe someone can help me...

I received a error message saying that a Serious Error has Occured while compressing the Junk or suspicious mail folder.

Well, not having a undelete program, I unwisely restarted PMail. (V4.4) Will it seemed to recreate the Junk or suspicious mail folder without any of my old messages.

I then found and downloaded a undelete program and found in ...local settings\temp directory two files that I think are the .PMM and .PMI files that used to be my

Junk or suspicious mail folder. When looking in the PMAIL folder, I find junk.pmm and junk.pmi in two directories. PMAIL\MAIL\ADMIN and \DEFAULTS...

Can/Where should the 'live' junk files live ?? Can I recover these temp files and get my messages back ? The folder is called Junk, but my messages were not Junk... <grin>

I'm open to any suggestions or ideas.

Thanks !!

Directory of C:\PMAIL\MAIL\ADMIN

03/14/2007 08:18 AM              118 junk.pmi
03/14/2007 08:18 AM             1,558 junk.pmm
               2 File(s)          1,676 bytes

Directory of C:\PMAIL\Programs\DEFAULTS

04/24/2008 05:34 PM              118 junk.pmi
01/16/2009 06:19 PM              512 junk.pmi.tmp
04/24/2008 05:34 PM             1,558 junk.pmm
01/16/2009 06:19 PM           49,152 junk.pmm.tmp
               4 File(s)         51,340 bytes

Re: Lost Folder - HIERARCH.PM del didnt work

Ace — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:56:15 GMT

So there we have it - the question resolved, and an understanding of how to prevent the problem from re-ocurring.

But I have to comment (I can't stop myself) - how can it be that the AV producers (who fully understand the risks of deleting files) send out their 'point & click' software, with defaults set to delete?

It's not as if we are now struggling for disk space.
It can't increase their fan base.
There is additional cost to them

What's more - they are very quick to insert repeating pop-up screens to remind you to upgrade, until youve done it.

Why not a repeating pop-up screen to remind you to examine the virus vault, after files have been moved there.
I didn't even know AVG8 had found any suspected threats.

This problem, quite literally just had to happen at some point, and therefore must be happening to people all over the world.

The AV guys surely must know this; but I guess a complaint such as this can only be acceptable if I provide AVG with the feedback, and request a fix in their next upgrade.

Other people affected should do the same.

Thanks again to everybody who has contributed to this discussion.

Ace

Re: Lost Folder - HIERARCH.PM del didnt work

Ace — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:53:23 GMT

ciao,

Here's what Hans has to say:

"These file pairs reference actual mail folders, where messages are stored in a more compressed form. The former indexes the position of the message in the latter file. The *.PMM file is a normal ASCII file containing all messages, separated by a CTRL-Z. Although this are ASCII files, any editing can mess up the folder content, making it impossible to access any individual messages."

Ie. it looks like the PMM file is the one with the messages.........of course it's the PMM file that is missing.

The question still therefore remains - are the messages gone?

I would have thought that for anybody out there who truly understands PM - this should be a straightforward question to answer.

Anybody?

Ace

Re: Unable to access Pegasus Mail account

Greenman — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:35:51 GMT

Thomas R. Stephenson:

This tells me that your main.PMM file is either totally corrupted or being held open in another application that does not allow access. Got to your HOME mail directory and check to see if you have the files main.PMM and main.PMI. If they are available then check the file sizes and report back. FWIW, if you have a huge MAIN folder then one hour may not be enough. ;-(

Thank you, Thomas.

The main folder contains 2679 messages and is 683,849kb. The index is 309kb

.PMM Folder Disappeared...

worldcompany — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:04:48 GMT

About 3 days ago, I was checking my email normally and moving messages to and from folders within Preview Mode.

All was normal until suddenly, I noticed that a particular folder disappeared (it was there only moments earlier). Note that before this particular folder disappeared, I have been moving email messages to and from it.

At first I thought that it somehow moved out of its tray... so I went looking for it in other trays and in my Mailbox. However, I wasn't able to find it.

When I checked my home mailbox location, I noticed that, out of all folders, there was 1 folder name (FOL07EEB.PMM) that was missing. How do I know? Because every other folder had a corresponding .PMI file. Only this particular one had no .PMM file, but the FOL07EEB.PMI file was still there. When I opened the FOL07EEB.PMI file with Notepad, I verified that it was indeed the folder that vanished.

Since then, I tried to recover the folder using all sorts of "undelete" and file recovery software, but all of them failed to find the FOL07EEB.PMM file. I know the exact date & time the FOL07EEB.PMM file disappeared, based on the date & time that the FOL07EEB.PMI file was last modified... however I cannot find a .PMM file that was last modified or deleted during that time from all the recovery/undelete software I was using.

For your info, I had Kaspersky virus scan, Webroot Spysweeper, SpyBot Search And Destroy and Zone Alarm Pro firewall/spyware on... and I checked their Quarantine folders and still couldn't find any trace of the missing .PMM folder.

Is there anyway to locate and possibly recover the lost FOL07EEB.PMM file? It contains quite a lot of important emails and unfortunately, my last good backup was from Aug 06 (I've now switched to backing up weekly after this incident). Also, what could have caused it? Would it be possible that Pmail was in the middle of writing to that folder, but something happened that caused the write to fail and the folder to become corrupt and vanish? (just throwing out a wild guess here)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Best Regards,

Sean