Joerg,

Your experience matches mine.  Glad to know that I'm not the only one.

Corrupted mailbox...

Ran mbxmaint_ui using *.pmm in the "Folder to check" path...

mbxmaint_ui stopped with "Checking 'FOL03" as the final line displayed. 

I ran it again and this time it stopped with "Folder appears O" as the final line.  

Anyone have any thoughts on what appears to be an mbxmaint_ui  malfunction?  This mailbox contains +700 folders.

Edit:

Modified the "folder to check" setting to "FOL03*.PMM" but got the same stall
Modified the "folder to check" setting to 'FOL03A*.PMM, no stall
Modified the "folder to check" setting to 'FOL03B*.PMM, no stall
Modified the "folder to check" setting to 'FOL03C*.PMM, no stall
Continued in this manner until all had been checked.

My assumption is that mbxmaint_ui chokes when a large number of folders are requested to be checked. 

[quote user="Brian Fluet"]My assumption is that mbxmaint_ui chokes when a large number of folders are requested to be checked.[/quote]

Never heard of such an issue before, you might want to ask David Harris yourself whether he believes this could be possible or not.

I never contacted David about this but a post over on the discussion list may be relevant.  A poster made the following observation about the mbxmaint file versions in v4.72 being older than the ones in previous versions.

v4.72
mbxmaint.exe        169,472        4/17/2011 4:29:56 PM
mbxmaint_ui.exe    180,736        4/17/2011 4:29:56 PM

Previous versions back to v4.63 (farthest I checked)
mbxmaint.exe        175,800        12/21/2011 1:46:40 AM
mbxmaint_ui.exe    187,064        12/21/2011 1:46:40 AM

An unknown is whether the December version fixed a flaw in the April version.  Another unknown is which version I was using when I encountered my problem (I have both readily available to me here at the office).

Edit:  The versions that are in the .zip file from the downloads area of this sight show a last modified date of 2/14/11.

I've made a note that I need to check the version difference out. Brian, if you could, would you be willing to send me the PMM/PMI file pair for the damaged folder so I can test the code out? I won't read anything and will delete it when I've done what I need.

Cheers!

-- David --

There isn't a damaged folder David.  I repaired two that got damaged due to simultaneous access by a co-worker.  Out of an abundance of caution I tried to check all of the folders using PATH\*.PMM in mbxmaint_ui.  That is when I ran into the hang problem.  I ran it multiple times (3 or 4) and it hung each time but in a different place.  Processing the files in batches worked.  I can't tell you the size of the batches though, I just batched it on filename change (eg: FOL00*.PMM, FOL01*.PMM,...).  Luckily there were only a few user created folder file names.

I think there are some problems within the graphical output of the GUI version. I experience also some oddities when checking a complete big folder structure with *.pmm in path. Sometimes the batch output stops although the button "CHECK" is still in depressed position. Then I have to wait until the checking process is really finished. Or it is not willing to start after a lot of other folder checks done before. Then I have to exit and restart it and it works again.

But because I use it very rarely, I faced the facts. [;)]