New Message: Re: Problem with Manila 6.2

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$2471

By: Patrick Schwisow (pschwisow at waukeganschools.org)



Dan,

Sounds like <ttmanilawebsites.root</tt is corrupt. I got something similar. (I believe the error I got was something like "Tried to read a free block".) The way I salvaged the file (as near as I can remember) was:

 * Backup your root before we start working on it (copy it in Finder)
 * Open Frontier and shut down the web server: /Web/ → /WebServer/ → /Stop/
 * Open the file: /Window/ → /manilaWebsites.root/
 * Save a copy: /File/ → /Save a Copy.../
 * When it gives an error, make note of where the error is (e.g. <ttmyManilaWebsite.#discussionGroup.messages...</tt
 * Go to the offending message and delete it.
 * Repeat as necessary until you succeed in saving.
 * Backup your (hopefully fixed) root!
 * If you have a good backup of the any of the messages you deleted, you can copy / paste them back into the fixed root. (Better to have an old version than none at all!)

If that works, I would recommend that you split your large root into two or more smaller roots. (Although you may find the root is much smaller once it's been compacted.)

Good luck!

Patrick

This is a Manila site... http://manila.userland.com/.