May 16, 2000
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A story of woe update. I’m cheering up. It looks like I won’t have to reimport a mass of email messages after all. I rebuilt the email database file using Emailer’s built-in utility (You can access it by holding down the option key on launch). Rebuilding ignores all of the permanently deleted messages, indexing only the active ones.
Not only did the database shrink from just over 124MB down to 32MB, but I managed to avoid any disk errors. This tells me that the part of the database sitting on top of the bad block contained a bunch of deleted data anyway. This is a marvelous turn of events. I still have to reformat that drive in the morning, so an hour or two of my day is shot, but rather that than be depressed over a crapload of lost email. Isn’t it amazing what things can make you smile?
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