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from: John Cuccia
date: 2004-06-21 14:13:04
subject: Re: Agent 2.0: corrupted database

From: John Cuccia 

I haven't had problems with corruption n Agent in quite some time, but it
was not uncommon a couple of years ago.   The symptom of my problem
was an empty message list.  A W2K chkdsk always fixed it.

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:04:03 -0500, Dave  wrote:

>This would be a question for Jane L., but she doesn't seem to come
>around much anymore.
>
>Anyone know how to figure out which .dat and .idx files in the Program
>Files\Agent\Data folder correspond to which folder?  They all have
>file names like 000091B6.DAT or 0000F089.IDX.
>
>The database or index corresponding to my e-mail Inbox got corrupted
>(by a virus???  W98.winski???), and I can no longer read several years
>worth of saved messages.  HOWEVER, I have the contents of my
>Agent\Data folder on a CD-R, if I knew which files to copy over, I
>could restore the inbox back to where it was a couple of months ago,
>which is better than nothing.
>
>The messages are still visible, sort of -- they show up on the message
>list, but with blank Subject: lines, and gibberish text.

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