Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 10 01:41:42 UTC 2005


William Park wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:18:48PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>It's amazing how much garbage some people are willing to put up with.  I
>>recently started supporting Windows users, at a large company where they
>>use Outlook.  Until now, I had never *EVER* heard of people routinely
>>losing large amounts of email.  Outlook uses one large PST file for each
>>personal folder.  When these folders get much beyond 750 MB they tend to
>>corrupt, with little hope of recovery.  The "Inbox Repair Tool" rarely
>>works, so if there's no backup, the messages are gone.  Outlook also
>>tends to "forget" where the PST files are.  When that happens, the user
>>has to recreate the personal folders in Outlook, by reconnecting to the
>>PST files.  These people have come to accept this as normal!!!???!!!
>>Why can't some people realize what a garbage product Outlook is and go
>>to some other app?  Just about everything else is far more reliable.  In
>>all the (almost 30) years I've been using and supporting computers, I've
>>never heard of mail disappearing due to anything other than finger error
>>or hardware failure, until now.
> 
> 
> Simple.
>     - It's not their money.
>     - Sysadmin has somthing to do.
>     - Users have something to do.
> 

I spent a few weeks this summer trying to recover fragments of a 
currupted .dbx file (even worse than .pst) for a user to simple text 
files. Apparently when cleaning up a mailbox, Outlook Express should not 
be touched at all or it will corrupt 6 months worth of email in one 
blow. Once that happens and your user defragments thinking to speed 
things up well... I know more about fat32 data recovery than I ever 
thought possible ;)

Can mbox folders become corrupted? I very much doubt it unless there is 
filesystem corruption?

Jamon
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