Re: Mass movement between groups

On 30 Sep 2021, at 15:16, Chris Hughes <hugheschris3797@...> wrote:
> 
> In message <c5fa0a7459.Richard@...>
>          Richard Mellish <Richard@...> wrote:
> 
>> I get a lot of emailshots of various levels of interest. Some of them I
>> move to a "Mailshots" group so they're available if I want to look at them
>> again, then every so often I delete those more than a few months old.
> 
>> Today I tried to open the group and got a message that the Overview file
>> was corrupt. A Repair operation started immediately. When that had
>> completed, with a warning that two messages might have been lost, I got
>> the error and the warning again, but then the group opened, with dozens of
>> messages from several years ago that should have been in other groups,
>> mostly my "Misc IT" group.
> 
>> This may belong in the Department of Irreproducible Results, but seems
>> worth flagging up, just in case the information is useful.
> 
I have repeatedly experienced that very problem, on most occasions that I have had a crash while !NetFetch Is debatching emails.

> I might be worth doing a disk check with DiscKnight to ensure the disc is 
> OK.
Definitely a good idea.


—
Andrew Pinder 

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