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REINSTALL A DELETED FOLDER

Thanks, Brian.  I appreciate your response.  Bobbie

Thanks, Brian.  I appreciate your response.  Bobbie

My granddaughter played with my computer and deleted one of my mail folders and the filing trays inside it.  I have backups of those folders.  How can I reinstall them?  Or can I?  Thanks, Bobbie

PS:  I am running Pegasus 4.63 on a Win 7 (32-bit) desktop.

<p>My granddaughter played with my computer and deleted one of my mail folders and the filing trays inside it.  I have backups of those folders.  How can I reinstall them?  Or can I?  Thanks, Bobbie</p><p>PS:  I am running Pegasus 4.63 on a Win 7 (32-bit) desktop. </p>

If you look at the files inside of the mailbox directory (default is C:\PMAIL\MAIL\ADMIN) you will see files with the same filename but with .pmm and .pmi extensions.  These are the mail folders (.pmi is the index).  With Pegasus closed, restore the file pairs from your backup that are missing in your mailbox directory.  If you had nested trays that nesting might be lost and need to be recreated.

Optionally, if the backup is in a windows directory you could use the "Add mailbox to list" function to add that directory to your folder list.  You could then copy the missing contents to your mailbox.  You would need to recreate the missing folder/tray structure in your folder list and then copy the messages from the trays of the added mailbox to the recreated ones.  This may be easier than identifying missing .pmm/.pmi file pairs depending on how many trays/folder/messages there are.  I suggest making a backup of your mailbox directory and a backup of your backup before you start.


<p>If you look at the files inside of the mailbox directory (default is C:\PMAIL\MAIL\ADMIN) you will see files with the same filename but with .pmm and .pmi extensions.  These are the mail folders (.pmi is the index).  With Pegasus closed, restore the file pairs from your backup that are missing in your mailbox directory.  If you had nested trays that nesting might be lost and need to be recreated. </p><p>Optionally, if the backup is in a windows directory you could use the "Add mailbox to list" function to add that directory to your folder list.  You could then copy the missing contents to your mailbox.  You would need to recreate the missing folder/tray structure in your folder list and then copy the messages from the trays of the added mailbox to the recreated ones.  This may be easier than identifying missing .pmm/.pmi file pairs depending on how many trays/folder/messages there are.  I suggest making a backup of your mailbox directory and a backup of your backup before you start.</p><p> </p>
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