Subj : timEd message base locking (or lack thereof) in UNIX
To   : All
From : andrew clarke
Date : Thu Oct 25 2012 04:45:50

Hello everybody.

25 Oct 12 04:38, I wrote to all:

 ac> I don't think you actually lose any messages but the index seems to
 ac> get corrupted somehow. The way I fix it is to run sqconver (from
 ac> MSGAPI/SMAPI/XMSGAPI) over the broken msgbase, then replace the
 ac> original msgbase with the newly created one. Obviously you wouldn't
 ac> want to do this while HPT is trying to toss messages into it, though.

Actually it turns out I'm still getting "MSGAPI: MERR_NOENT: File/message does 
not exist" errors even after running sqconver, which is pretty weird when you 
think about how sqconver is supposed to work.

I might try getting sqconver to convert the base to *.MSG format, then back to 
Squish format.

Or I could just not use Squish format, I suppose. On modern PCs with new 
filesystems, having few thousand *.MSG files in a single directory is not a big 
deal.

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