Re: backup tool, sent mail file

** Reply to note from [email protected] Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:00:02 +0000
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> She will use SMPMW118 for the new profile, will not migrate to 2.1 after  some flavour of eCs is installed in it and all the data on the old  box are
> transferred to the new one. AND a decent backup program is  installed on this old box and be carried over to the new one - will make  this program
> visible on more than one os/2 and eCs partitions so if for  example a "hotted up" WSeB crashes then it can be restored from an eCs  OS using the this

 Another commerical gui tool for backup:
https://www.arcanoae.com/shop/easysync/

> She haven't trimmed down the Sent folder, it had been clobbered when the  crash in the mailer occured - before the crash it contained Sent mails  upto
> the crash, i.e. 2020. The crash occured when She tried to send a  tune to this guy She mentioned above, and the size of that tune was  14Mib. Have sent
> a tune wich was about 20Mib in size, and that was in  2017 and SMPMW118 sent it correctly to Her buddy who likes music, both  "commercial", "progg"

 Re-arrange the above into: your Sent file was clobbered by adding new attachements and not deleting old notes. Continue same behavior and another
crash will occur.
   
> Btw, do you have any experience with ProNews/2? The current version went  bonkers after a unplanned reboot so that after that every messages went 
> into the same newsgroup. So She thinks that opening the old ProNews in  offline mode and bring up the Settings notebook, opening a fresh Pronews 
> instance, also in offline mode, just tick off the old settings in the  fresh session, close them down and then deleting the Settings file in  the old Pronews
> version and just plop in the new Settings file into it  should clear up this problem so that She can begin using it again.

 Never got to newsgroup message clients. Would like to someday.
   
        Cal