[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]

To increase the speed of step 1 I moved the program to my hard drive first.

The

empty original folder still consists this data error after step 2. Now

I would blindly go to step 4 if the original folders name was not

Main.pmm. Is this fact insignificant and will I proceed the next 12

years without Main.pmm? Or can I simply rename the filename of the new

folder to Main.pmm?

Not that big a deal anymore.  It is one of the unique folders though and renaming the PMM and PMI files might make it easier for you to work with the folders.  I keep an older version of PMail around that will enable me to rename the file.  ;-)

After more than 12 years of updating

versions, I'm afraid I already have a quite untypical and maybe messy

setup (i.e. no 'Program' folder I keep reading about on this forum). So

I'm a little sensitive about this kind of changes. In fact my next

topic on this forum was going to be how I can install a clean version

4.52 and later add my settings and data to this new install instead of

installing over the old version.

I personally believe this is a waste of time.  I've had PMail installed in the c"\pmail directory since I was running PMail for MSDOS in the early 90's.  I have never done anything but install the new version over the old.  When I updated the computer I just copied from the old hard drives and actually never do a new install except for testing.  ;-)  I also have PMail 3.5x, WinPMail v2.5x, 3.x, 4.41 and v4.5 all pointing at the same mailbox directories so I can test out and support older versions as well.  I do use the -Y <filename> commandline option so that older WinPMail versions do not mess up my v4.5 PMail.ini.  ;-)

[/quote]

Ok, it was hard for me but I did it. Main folder is gone... Maybe I will even install 4.52 over this version... Again... ;)

Thanks for solving the issue!

Casa

Hello,

My main folder contains a data error. When I reindex the folder and open it again, it seems to contain some 30 copies of the same message (same sender, subject, date/time but different very small sizes). When I delete the messages again, the data error returns and when I reindex, the messages appear again. The same description goes for a bunch of message from Unknown with subject (None), the same date/time and different very small sizes.

Is there a way to get rid of both the messages and the data error? 

Thanks in Advance!

Casa

(Version 4.41 on an usb stick, currently on an XP machine)

> Hello,
>
> My main folder contains a data error. When I reindex the folder and
> open it again, it seems to contain some 30 copies of the same
> message (same sender, subject, date/time but different very small
> sizes). When I delete the messages again, the data error returns and
> when I reindex, the messages appear again. The same description goes
> for a bunch of message from Unknown with subject (None), the same
> date/time and different very small sizes.
>
> Is there a way to get rid of both the messages and the data
> error?

1.  Move all the messages you want to save to a temp folder and
    delete all the messages in the original folder.

2.  Use the right click "recover deleted space" to remove all
    messages form the folder.

3.  If step 2 works then simply move all of the messages from the
    temp folder back to the original folder and delete the temp
    folder.

4.  If step 2 fails then delete the original folder and rename the
    temp folder to match the original name.  Reset the filter(s)
    pointing to this folder.


FWIW, the problem with the folder could be related to the USB stick you are using.

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]
1.  Move all the messages you want to save to a temp folder and
    delete all the messages in the original folder.

2.  Use the right click "recover deleted space" to remove all
    messages form the folder.

3.  If step 2 works then simply move all of the messages from the
    temp folder back to the original folder and delete the temp
    folder.

4.  If step 2 fails then delete the original folder and rename the
    temp folder to match the original name.  Reset the filter(s)
    pointing to this folder.


FWIW, the problem with the folder could be related to the USB stick you are using.

[/quote]

Thanks for the fast reply.

To increase the speed of step 1 I moved the program to my hard drive first.

The empty original folder still consists this data error after step 2. Now I would blindly go to step 4 if the original folders name was not Main.pmm. Is this fact insignificant and will I proceed the next 12 years without Main.pmm? Or can I simply rename the filename of the new folder to Main.pmm?

After more than 12 years of updating versions, I'm afraid I already have a quite untypical and maybe messy setup (i.e. no 'Program' folder I keep reading about on this forum). So I'm a little sensitive about this kind of changes. In fact my next topic on this forum was going to be how I can install a clean version 4.52 and later add my settings and data to this new install instead of installing over the old version.

Casa

To increase the speed of step 1 I moved the program to my hard drive first.

The

empty original folder still consists this data error after step 2. Now

I would blindly go to step 4 if the original folders name was not

Main.pmm. Is this fact insignificant and will I proceed the next 12

years without Main.pmm? Or can I simply rename the filename of the new

folder to Main.pmm?

Not that big a deal anymore.  It is one of the unique folders though and renaming the PMM and PMI files might make it easier for you to work with the folders.  I keep an older version of PMail around that will enable me to rename the file.  ;-)

After more than 12 years of updating

versions, I'm afraid I already have a quite untypical and maybe messy

setup (i.e. no 'Program' folder I keep reading about on this forum). So

I'm a little sensitive about this kind of changes. In fact my next

topic on this forum was going to be how I can install a clean version

4.52 and later add my settings and data to this new install instead of

installing over the old version.

I personally believe this is a waste of time.  I've had PMail installed in the c"\pmail directory since I was running PMail for MSDOS in the early 90's.  I have never done anything but install the new version over the old.  When I updated the computer I just copied from the old hard drives and actually never do a new install except for testing.  ;-)  I also have PMail 3.5x, WinPMail v2.5x, 3.x, 4.41 and v4.5 all pointing at the same mailbox directories so I can test out and support older versions as well.  I do use the -Y <filename> commandline option so that older WinPMail versions do not mess up my v4.5 PMail.ini.  ;-)