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OE mail vs chkdsk
I imagine a lot of you already know this, but ... I experienced an
"interesting" event today with OE that might be worth passing along. I was running chkdsk on drive D, the second partition (data) on my first hard drive. Bored, I got tired of waiting for it and decided since OE is on the C drive, I could safely run it. Only, I forgot the message stores are on D plus that it was dismounted in order to run chkdsk. After all the chkdsk jobs finished (all 5 drive letters), got the following result/s: All personally created email folders disappeared. All newsgroup subscriptions (not the newsgroup itself) disappeared. But, all email accounts were left in tact. Didn't look at the WAB. Checking e-mail started to download ALL messages that were left on the server; 14 day's worth in most cases, for all 8 accounts. Newsgroups all wanted to be redownloaded since there were no subscriptions. Fortunately I had an image to get the files back from, but ... it was still a surprise, not to mention an irritation over my own stupidityg. So, leave stuff alone when chkdsk is running. It might bite! HTH Pop` |
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OE mail vs chkdsk
The files might still be there, but OE lost the location. You try searching
for *.dbx (hidden) and see if you can find the old files. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 That's a real horror story. steve "Poprivet" wrote in message ... I imagine a lot of you already know this, but ... I experienced an "interesting" event today with OE that might be worth passing along. I was running chkdsk on drive D, the second partition (data) on my first hard drive. Bored, I got tired of waiting for it and decided since OE is on the C drive, I could safely run it. Only, I forgot the message stores are on D plus that it was dismounted in order to run chkdsk. After all the chkdsk jobs finished (all 5 drive letters), got the following result/s: All personally created email folders disappeared. All newsgroup subscriptions (not the newsgroup itself) disappeared. But, all email accounts were left in tact. Didn't look at the WAB. Checking e-mail started to download ALL messages that were left on the server; 14 day's worth in most cases, for all 8 accounts. Newsgroups all wanted to be redownloaded since there were no subscriptions. Fortunately I had an image to get the files back from, but ... it was still a surprise, not to mention an irritation over my own stupidityg. So, leave stuff alone when chkdsk is running. It might bite! HTH Pop` |
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OE mail vs chkdsk
Steve Cochran wrote:
The files might still be there, but OE lost the location. You try searching for *.dbx (hidden) and see if you can find the old files. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 That's a real horror story. Well, -this- time it wasn't bad; my intermediate backup ran last night, so it wasn't hard to recover. But I think I'm one of the few to have a backup image handy; Ghost 10. I thought about looking for the files and reimporting them but it seemed easier to just restore them. I wish now I'd looked; I don't know if they were there or not - they well could have been. Pop` steve "Poprivet" wrote in message ... I imagine a lot of you already know this, but ... I experienced an "interesting" event today with OE that might be worth passing along. I was running chkdsk on drive D, the second partition (data) on my first hard drive. Bored, I got tired of waiting for it and decided since OE is on the C drive, I could safely run it. Only, I forgot the message stores are on D plus that it was dismounted in order to run chkdsk. After all the chkdsk jobs finished (all 5 drive letters), got the following result/s: All personally created email folders disappeared. All newsgroup subscriptions (not the newsgroup itself) disappeared. But, all email accounts were left in tact. Didn't look at the WAB. Checking e-mail started to download ALL messages that were left on the server; 14 day's worth in most cases, for all 8 accounts. Newsgroups all wanted to be redownloaded since there were no subscriptions. Fortunately I had an image to get the files back from, but ... it was still a surprise, not to mention an irritation over my own stupidityg. So, leave stuff alone when chkdsk is running. It might bite! HTH Pop` |
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