[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"][quote user="locators"]

  I have been using Pegasus for many years and over this time, I have had a number of crashes which made me start over.  

 When this happened, I simply changed my directory name, kept the old messages in a renamed directory and started over.

I would like to get all of this information into one user name, merged from several different user names and then re-sort, re-categorize and refile all of the data.

What concerns me is that the file numbering system in Pegasus Mail may assign duplicate numbers to different messages, and allow some to be overwritten and destroyed.

Can you advise me how you merged the files without this being done

I would use the  "Add mailbox to list" function and then move the messages from the added mail folders into folders in the mail mailbox.  You can;t move the folders between mailboxes and so there will be no file overwriting in any case.  If there are any message in the new mail folder then move them as well, even to the new mail folder since the move process will not allow the same CNM file name.

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I have a similar problem, have made the link as suggested but it only shows the messages in the very top level, and not in the folders beneath the mailbox.

Can someone please give me guidance / help. (I have tught of moving everting to the top level then sorting it back from there but that is a lot of work

George 

 I have been using Pegasus for many years and over this time, I have had

a number of crashes which made me start over.  

 When this happened, I simply changed my directory name, kept the old messages

in a renamed directory and started over.

I would like to get all of this information into one user name, merged from several different

user names and then re-sort, re-categorize and refile all of the data.

What concerns me is that the file numbering system in pegasus may assign

duplicate numbers to different messages, and allow some to be overwritten

and destroyed.

Can you advise me how you merged the files without this being done

Thanks

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[quote user="locators"]

  I have been using Pegasus for many years and over this time, I have had a number of crashes which made me start over.  

 When this happened, I simply changed my directory name, kept the old messages in a renamed directory and started over.

I would like to get all of this information into one user name, merged from several different user names and then re-sort, re-categorize and refile all of the data.

What concerns me is that the file numbering system in Pegasus Mail may assign duplicate numbers to different messages, and allow some to be overwritten and destroyed.

Can you advise me how you merged the files without this being done

I would use the  "Add mailbox to list" function and then move the messages from the added mail folders into folders in the mail mailbox.  You can;t move the folders between mailboxes and so there will be no file overwriting in any case.  If there are any message in the new mail folder then move them as well, even to the new mail folder since the move process will not allow the same CNM file name.

Thanks

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Thanks for the insight.

If the folder won't allow the same name, does it change the name to one that is 

not in use?

 Could I just rename all the messages .cnm and re-file them?

I really need to get all the messages into one big file, then resort and refile it.

I have important messages in a bunch of different file folders due to the crashes over time and it is a mess that makes the whole system nearly useless.

[quote user="locators"]Thanks for the insight.

 If the folder won't allow the same name, does it change the name to one that is not in use?

Not sure what you mean about the folder name.  There are multiple actual folder names; the internal one in the headers in the PMM file, the root name of the PMM/PMI file and the long folder name in the folder listing.  You cannot have two folders with the same internal name, one will not be listed.  You cannot have folders with the same root filename and you should not have folders of the same long name. When moving messages between folders in different mailboxes though this is not material.

 Could I just rename all the messages .cnm and re-file them?

You could but it's more of a pain in the rear that having the program rename the files in the required 8.3 format when moving files between new mail folders.

I really need to get all the messages into one big file, then resort and refile it.

I have important messages in a bunch of different file folders due to the crashes over time and it is a mess that makes the whole system nearly useless.

Not sure why you had to do new installs all the time.  I've been using PMail in the same mail folders since the early '90s.