[JA] director.frm disappeared!
- From: Geoffrey Wilson <glw4@xxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:44:06 -0500
Last week I fired up my wife's computer for maintenance, and started Juno 4.11.
I found an empty In box.
When she came in she asked what had happened to all her stuff. We were
worried.
I went to the USER0000 folder with Windows Explorer, and found a
director.frm file, no director,bak file, and six new FOLDnnnn files, to
which the director.frm file was pointing. All the original FOLDnnnn files
were still there.
With a text editor I set up a replacement director.frm file to point to the
first six FOLDnnnn files by name, and to all the others with arbitrary names.
This worked - my wife was able to see the contents of all her all her
original nineteen mailboxes and tell me what their names should be. We
were also, in Juno, able to move the the three or four messages in the new
InBox and Sent_Items folders into the original folders.
I then deleted the new folders entirely, and with a second pass with the
text editor I reassigned the true names, and while I was about it I put
them in alphabetical order.
I also interchanged the Inbox fold0000.frm with another empty foldnnnn file
using the DOS REN command (it needs an intermediate step to something like
fold000x) and gave it the name Old-In. She had had over 300 messages
there, which slowed things down.
I did the same thing with the Sent\_Items fold0003.frm
Now everything was hunky-dory, and she has been busy cleaning out the old
In and Sent folders and putting things where they ought to be.
However, I wonder why those original director.frm and director.bak files
disappeared.
I am now about to alphabetize her addrbook.nv file with a text editor.
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