[Dixielandjazz] Email lockup and meltdown

[Don Ingle]

Having been through this in recent times, I am happy to help out.
Don Ingle
dingle at nomadinter.net

Have a g'day, mate,
Don

Bill Haesler wrote:
> Dear friends,
> Please bear with me on this one.
> For the last three years or so, following the crash of my Outlook 
> Express application, I have been sending emails using the excellent 
> 'MS Entourage For Mac OS X' program.
> The other day, helped in no small way by the vast amount of mail 
> generated by the DJML (and compounded by my penchant for keeping 
> everything) I finally reached the 4 Gigabyte storage limit allocated 
> for Entourage on my eMac hard drive.
> Unfortunately, while 'rebuilding' the Entourage file to release some 
> disc space (Mac people will know what I mean), I've introduced a 'mail 
> error'  bug and the nearly 80,000 (yes) received/sent/saved email 
> messages had been 'frozen' and I can't work out how to get at them.
> Today, I managed, through my ISP, to connect up again using the 
> simpler, lesser, Apple <Mail> email program.
> At least I can receive and send again, but have lost all your 
> addresses and messages, some of which contain important research 
> information.
> Until I can find out how to unlock and access the 'missing' Entourage 
> folders, I am lost and flying blind.
> If I owe you a reply, or a CD or some-such, feel free to send me a 
> reminder, as I don't keep these things in my head anymore.
> Kind regards,
> Bill
>
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