salzman%gaucho@RAND.ORG (Isaac Salzman) (11/21/89)
hi there. scavenge doesn't seem to work and i have no idea why. here's a
transcript of the output of running scavenge, followed by a reconstruct.
maybe one of the implementers can detect a problem?
after running it, it scavenged one of the 28 new messages. a reconstruct
picked everything up.
here it is (notice the processing erros):
gaucho:andrew 37 >cui
CUI> set lev wiz
Expertise level set to wizard
CUI> scave info-andrew-pend
Recursively scavenge all subdirectories [No] ?
Purge deletions after scavenging [No] ?
Checking for hidden messages in folder ~/.MESSAGES/info-andrew-pend.
Found 28 old hidden messages in ~/.MESSAGES/info-andrew-pend (0 orphaned
snapshots, 27 processing errors).
Scavenged /i/salzman/.MESSAGES/info-andrew-pend.
CUI> recons info-andrew-pend
How do you want to sort the reconstructed folder
1 - By time stamp on the raw files
2 - By parsing the 'Date' header (slower; sets time stamps)
Choose one [1 - By time stamp on the raw files]: 2
Reconstructing ~/.MESSAGES/info-andrew-pend; please wait...
Reconstructed folder ~/.MESSAGES/info-andrew-pend with 228 entries
CUI> EOF
-Isaac (salzman@rand.org)nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (11/21/89)
Sigh... not very informative, was it? "27 processing errors," indeed! It would help a lot, I suspect, if you would do the following, assuming the error is reproducible: In CUI, type "set debug 0 0 0 -1" and then give the scavenge command to reproduce the error. CUI will generate a TON of debugging output. (You might want to try it on a folder with only a few messages, in fact.) If you then send me and/or the ITC people that output, it might help to quickly pinpoint the problem. Thanks. -- NB