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Too large netscape 4.7 inbox no TOC

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by pete_may

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I had a users NT 4 SP6a computer crash the other day. I recovered all his data but somehow the table of contents for his inbox in netscape was lost. The inbox is half a gig and I can't read it on any machine as netscape needs to recreate the TOC. I've tried leaving it on a computer with 192mb of memory but even after a day it only processes 79%. Users computer had standard 64mb.
How do I recover this file if not through netscape

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by tyger07

If the app was open during the crash the contents are problably corrupt. Have you tried this:

1) create new mail folder
2) bring in each subfolder one at a time.
2b) run the mailclient after each insertion.
3) this may help you determine whichfile \folder is corrupt.

I got to say that a BIG file. I would archive that. There is no way a users mail file needs to be that big.

Frank

by pete_may

Hi this is pretty much what I have allready done by renaming the offending inbox and putting it in my mail folder. Attempting to open the folder from within netscape and monitering with task manager suggests that netscape needs to read the entire folder into memory to create a TOC. I was hoping that someone knew of a third party utility which could read the inbox. I guess netscape can handle V big files if it has a TOC.
Peter

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