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problem running IE 5 on Win98 ??
weird problem with IE 5 running on Win98:
one folder has 2,221 emails, during transfer [copy] to a local folder, error occurred, tried again, got double copies, and worse, can't now get rid of those 'extra' copies. don't delete, don't move (get an error message), can't even delete one at a time, nothing happens ?! any ideas as to how to purge the contents and refill with 'proper' emails? can't delete folder ...has subfolders plus won't delete anyway |
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problem running IE 5 on Win98 ??
Robert Macy wrote in
oups.com: weird problem with IE 5 running on Win98: one folder has 2,221 emails, during transfer [copy] to a local folder, error occurred, tried again, got double copies, and worse, can't now get rid of those 'extra' copies. don't delete, don't move (get an error message), can't even delete one at a time, nothing happens ?! any ideas as to how to purge the contents and refill with 'proper' emails? can't delete folder ...has subfolders plus won't delete anyway I haven't used IE for about 10 or 11 years, but it IS possible that you can get at all that material using a real file viewer (ie NOT notepad). Edxor is one you could try. It would be a LOT of manual drudgery, but you could edit/copy/paste sections of the files and then just save them in groups or individually or as one huge txt file. But it's quite likely someone who uses this program will give you a simple solution. I must add that I can NOT believe someone is still using IE5, or IE /at all/, especially someone smart enough to still use 98 and visit this group occasionally. |
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problem running IE 5 on Win98 ??
Robert Macy wrote:
weird problem with IE 5 running on Win98: one folder has 2,221 emails, during transfer [copy] to a local folder, error occurred, tried again, got double copies, and worse, can't now get rid of those 'extra' copies. don't delete, don't move (get an error message), can't even delete one at a time, nothing happens ?! any ideas as to how to purge the contents and refill with 'proper' emails? can't delete folder ...has subfolders plus won't delete anyway The basic solution, I think, lies in you're ultimately being able to delete that folder and it's subfolders. Maybe it's locked. I dont think I've come across a folder yet that I can't ultimately delete one way or the other, but it just may take some doing and tricks of the trade, that's all. Saying it "won't delete" ... is a bit of "insufficient data". So - work on the folder's attributes to make sure it's not hidden, and/or read only, or whatever. OR you can do this task in DOS, using deltree, but just be careful with that command. |
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On May 15, 9:28*pm, "Bill in Co"
wrote: Robert Macy wrote: weird problem with IE 5 running on Win98: one folder has 2,221 emails, during transfer [copy] to a local folder, error occurred, tried again, got double copies, and worse, can't now get rid of those 'extra' copies. *don't delete, don't move (get an error message), can't even delete one at a time, nothing happens ?! any ideas as to how to purge the contents and refill with 'proper' emails? can't delete folder ...has subfolders plus won't delete anyway The basic solution, I think, lies in you're ultimately being able to delete that folder and it's subfolders. * Maybe it's locked. * I dont think I've come across a folder yet that I can't ultimately delete one way or the other, but it just may take some doing and tricks of the trade, that's all. Saying it "won't delete" ... is a bit of "insufficient data". So - work on the folder's attributes to make sure it's not hidden, and/or read only, or whatever. * OR you can do this task in DOS, using deltree, but just be careful with that command. The folder contains 2,221 emails many with large attachments and contains four subfolders with 100 to 600 emails each. When originally moving the contents from the IMAP server to the local folders for saving, an error occurred somewhere in the middle and closed the application. Didn't need to but rebooted, and reopen and try again, caused the same problem at some arbitrary same email. This repeat action caused double listings of all the emails up to that email. I went to the server and deleted that single email. Created a new local folder called FOLDER02 and copied 2,220 emails with no problem. So task is done, I now have archive storage of everything for when the ISP ceases. BUT..because of FOLDER01 having duplicates and only partial total, I have over 250MB of c*** that will not move, nor delete. I then tried going to the 'end' of the list in FOLDER01 and started deleting one email at a time. which worked well until I hit a certain one and then no more would delete. Thus, I am again stuck with a stubborn folder. I tried looking for where these were stored and found something called FOLDER01.dbx Would deleting that work? what if the application is counting on the file being there, when it's not, hangs up and I lose all? Where do I look for read only type information? Regards, Robert |
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problem running IE 5 on Win98 ??
On May 15, 7:48*pm, thanatoid wrote:
Robert Macy wrote oups.com: weird problem with IE 5 running on Win98: one folder has 2,221 emails, during transfer [copy] to a local folder, error occurred, tried again, got double copies, and worse, can't now get rid of those 'extra' copies. *don't delete, don't move (get an error message), can't even delete one at a time, nothing happens ?! any ideas as to how to purge the contents and refill with 'proper' emails? can't delete folder ...has subfolders plus won't delete anyway I haven't used IE for about 10 or 11 years, but it IS possible that you can get at all that material using a real file viewer (ie NOT notepad). Edxor is one you could try. It would be a LOT of manual drudgery, but you could edit/copy/paste sections of the files and then just save them in groups or individually or as one huge txt file. But it's quite likely someone who uses this program will give you a simple solution. I must add that I can NOT believe someone is still using IE5, or IE /at all/, especially someone smart enough to still use 98 and visit this group occasionally. The decision to use IE5 was based upon (1) it was there, (2) needed a one shot archive of some 10,000 emails containing approx 700MB of attachments from an ISP quitting soon, and (3) IE5 worked well until this last folder!!! In other words, if it had not glitched at the last there would have been NO problem, I'd be done. ...sigh Up until now, I don't use IE and after this I will never use IE again, except the possibility of search for that never published, and now missing, white paper on deconvolution. Regards, Robert |
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problem running IE 5 on Win98 ??
Robert Macy wrote:
On May 15, 9:28 pm, "Bill in Co" wrote: Robert Macy wrote: weird problem with IE 5 running on Win98: one folder has 2,221 emails, during transfer [copy] to a local folder, error occurred, tried again, got double copies, and worse, can't now get rid of those 'extra' copies. don't delete, don't move (get an error message), can't even delete one at a time, nothing happens ?! any ideas as to how to purge the contents and refill with 'proper' emails? can't delete folder ...has subfolders plus won't delete anyway The basic solution, I think, lies in you're ultimately being able to delete that folder and it's subfolders. Maybe it's locked. I dont think I've come across a folder yet that I can't ultimately delete one way or the other, but it just may take some doing and tricks of the trade, that's all. Saying it "won't delete" ... is a bit of "insufficient data". So - work on the folder's attributes to make sure it's not hidden, and/or read only, or whatever. OR you can do this task in DOS, using deltree, but just be careful with that command. The folder contains 2,221 emails many with large attachments and contains four subfolders with 100 to 600 emails each. When originally moving the contents from the IMAP server to the local folders for saving, an error occurred somewhere in the middle and closed the application. Didn't need to but rebooted, and reopen and try again, caused the same problem at some arbitrary same email. This repeat action caused double listings of all the emails up to that email. I went to the server and deleted that single email. Created a new local folder called FOLDER02 and copied 2,220 emails with no problem. So task is done, I now have archive storage of everything for when the ISP ceases. BUT..because of FOLDER01 having duplicates and only partial total, I have over 250MB of c*** that will not move, nor delete. I then tried going to the 'end' of the list in FOLDER01 and started deleting one email at a time. which worked well until I hit a certain one and then no more would delete. Thus, I am again stuck with a stubborn folder. I tried looking for where these were stored and found something called FOLDER01.dbx Would deleting that work? what if the application is counting on the file being there, when it's not, hangs up and I lose all? Where do I look for read only type information? Regards, Robert I'm not familiar with IMAP so I can't help you there. ALL of my emails are stored locally on my hard drive in one folder. "Folders.dbx" is the master file which contains the structure and hierarchy of all the OE subfolders. And normally there is only ONE folders.dbx! Normally, if you delete "folders.dbx", and then reopen OE, it will be rebuilt from the other dbx files, in the corresponding OE directory. But in your case I'm not sure whether or not to recommend it, as it's getting me a bit confused. :-) Ultimately you only want ONE folders.dbx and one OE directory for the email and newsgroups, of course, and I'm not sure how to straighten your situation out (without taking some chances). (Backups of the OE related stuff would be a good idea at this point) To check any folder's attributes, you can right click on them in windows explorer, and then select Properties, and see it. |
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On 05/15/2011 09:28 PM, Robert Macy wrote:
weird problem with IE 5 running on Win98: one folder has 2,221 emails, during transfer [copy] to a local folder, error occurred, tried again, got double copies, and worse, can't now get rid of those 'extra' copies. don't delete, don't move (get an error message), can't even delete one at a time, nothing happens ?! any ideas as to how to purge the contents and refill with 'proper' emails? can't delete folder ...has subfolders plus won't delete anyway Try running scandisk btw: IE5 is a browser I'm assuming you meant OE5 |
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Robert Macy wrote:
Thus, I am again stuck with a stubborn folder. I tried looking for where these were stored and found something called FOLDER01.dbx Since you are dealing with .dbx "folders", be aware that they are not folders in the usual sense. Nor are the "files" in them discreet, individual files. As an example, consider OE's Inbox. The messages in it are stored in a *file* called "Inbox.dbx" and that file is represented to you as a folder even though it is a file with all the emails in the "inbox" chained together...what used to be called a sequential file. In order to see that data stream, it must be separated into discreet pieces - into email "files" - and OE does so via info stored elsewhere about the dbx files structures. One benefit of this method is that the size of the dbx file is much less than the sum total of the data (emails) in it if they were discreet files. If they were individual files, each would require at least one allocation unit of disk space and an email is generally much smaller than even the smallest unit. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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