On Nov 16, 2003,, at 7:33 PM, J Patrick Draine wrote: > Should I just print out the really invaluable messages and toss the > rest & start over again? Why don't you burn them all to a CD ( 2 each backups would be better) and catalog them using third party software? There are software programs for the mac that catalog volumes. I personally use CDFinder 4.1 You can then trash your present mail files on your hard drive and start over. Albert Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 (FW800) 1.75 GB DDR SDRAM OS Panther 10.3