Can omailbase.dat be rebuilt?

[jedidog]

jedidog last edited by

I have 20 years of email, first in Opera and then in Opera Mail. Today, shortly after a power outage, I could no longer view any mail. My omailbase.dat is only 4K, so it must be trashed. My question is: Can I rebuild omailbase.dat?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

You can manually trigger a database check, which can fix some simple corruption in omailbase.dat. If can't fix really bad corruption though. It sounds like yours was wiped out and a new one was created.

As for rebuilding omailbase.dat, you can't. You can only rebuild the search index. However, you can start with a new mail folder and import your old messages back in from the old mail folder.

[jedidog]

jedidog @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426
Thanks for your response. I think the reason I lost omailbase.dat in the first place is that it was on a flaky hard drive. I need to replace the drive before I can follow your suggestions.