So i backed up my wizard. It had an email acct called 'pop3'.
i restored it but then i had to create a new acct and this time i named it 'gmail'.
so now on my today page, i always see: POP3: 2 unread messages but my system no longer has this account on it.
I have a feeling these two msgs are stuck in the cemail.vol file.
I searched and searched and cant figure out how to kill this file so that i can just resync to get my msgs and rebuild that file.
Any way to do this?
no ideas?
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Hi,
after getting my XDAIIi back from having the screen replaced I had to restore my last backup.
I now have two old email's in the inbox of the Outlook Email account in the messaging application which were obviously unread messages when that backup was created via ActiveSync.
Any ideas how I can get rid of them? I can click and highlight them but even though the option to delete the message(s) is shown when I choose 'delete' or 'move' nothing happens to the message.
Many thanks
i have a similar problem, the emails can't be read, deleted, or moved, and it has nothing to do with restoring (as the only restoring i've done was part of Sin's ROM build process for WM2003SE on the XDAII).
these emails that are unmoveable/readable/deletable i used to be able to read, like a couple of days ago i could.
before i recently hard reset the device, i had the same problem with some sms's in my sms inbox and sent folder.
very strange and annoying, as a hard reset appears to be the only way to get rid of them.
Where are e-mail account & unread files held?
Hi there, hope you can help.
I have an HTC Wizard (O2 XDA Mini S) and recently restored a backup using
the latest Sprite Backup for WM5.0.
It kinda half restored my one POP3 e-mail account, in that the account
appears on the Today screen showing '59 Unread', but not in the Messaging
program folder list. I.e. it's there, but not visible and I can't see the
Inbox etc.
When I try to recreate the account using the same name, Messaging won't let
me as 'an account already exists with that name'. So, it's invisible.
I've tried removing all entries of the account name from the registry, but
after a reboot they reappear, it still shows Unread items, and I can't
recreate the account.
How can I completely remove this account, to start again?
Sometimes I checked and downloaded complete email with attachment when I was out. Then the same emails would eventually be downloaded from the PC (and thus deleted from the POP server).
And the next time I check mails from the same account, the emails which I had downloaded before would be cleared from the Inbox on PPC. Fine, however as times goes by, I noticed that there are still many files under the folder Attachement which eat up a lot of storage space. Apparently they were not automatically deleted together with the mails.
So, how do I safely remove them? The last time I deleted one of the files under this folder, it screwed up my Inbox on my Xda II -- some phantom emails which refused to be deleted.
When you say delete, are you SURE that they aren't going into the deleted items folder?
I did not delete the mails, they "vanish" during the subsequent checking and downloading mail from the POP3 server. I suppose WM5 must have a reason for clearing these messages from the device as they no longer exist in the POP server. However, I find that when this happens, the attachments are usually left behind.
Here si the fix on the HTC and disappearing emails
1 start/message/click email account/menu/tools/options/tap email account/edit account setup/next/next/next/next/next/download message 3 pls days/advance setting/keep them on server/next/ finish
Do this for all accounts
Now go to your computer and outlook tools/email accounts/view or change email account/next/change/ more settings/advanced/leave copy on server/ how many days is up to you
You must do this for all you accounts on that computer. then do the same to all the computer you use to get the same e-mails.
Does anyone know where all the messages are stored within the phones system itself? if i wanted to install a new ROM then replace the msgs after the new install.
Try windows\messaging\
the messaging folder contains emails, not SMS and it is an email per file, PPC outlook doesn't act like desktop outlook in that it does not store all email and the database. Instead the database is in PPC's database system which references those files in windows/messaging. Therefore it isn't going to be easy to simply re-instate the messages. you can put the files back in the folder but it isn't going to re-instate those messages in poutlook.
I haven't seen the database itself, it may also containt the complete SMS messages. I am unsure where MMS Messages are stored.
It sure would be easier if they used a pst type file for poutlook like they do for desktop outlook.
However, the message list (that you see when you open "poutlook") is stored in one file, I just don't know where it is. While experimenting with trying to get that e-mail on a storage card (something I could do on my smartphone, darn it) deleting all the files still shows the list of e-mails, but opening one just displays "click here to download this message at the next send/receive."
I just re-flashed the ROM of my Wizard and used Sprite Backup to restore my SMS messages. Everything works great. But...
Now I have on the Messaging Today Plugin an old e-mail account showing with unread messages. This e-mail account is not installed on either the Wizard or my desktop I used for syncing. I can highlight it on the Today Screen but when I click it doesn't go anywhere.
I've search entire registry and deleted all instances of the e-mail account and/or account name. I've even tried creating a new account with the same name (it doesn't let me as it says its a duplicate). Either way...everyting I tried has yet to solve it.
Anyone have a solution?
Thanks in advance.
When you don't have any precious mail in there, you can use for example SKTools 3's mail database cleanup utility to clean up these databases completely.
Menneisyys,
Thanks for getting back to me. I've tried what you have suggested. First backup the entire phone again. Then did the following:
1) Deleted all e-mail accounts in PIM
2) Deleted all registry entries with any information linked to e-mail account name or account's e-mail address
3) Ran SKTools' Messaging cleaner and deleted all files
4) Ran SKTools' Databases cleaner and emptied all fldr* files that aren't matched to SMS messages. I was unable to delete any of them. It would just say "1 process" but when it re-scans it will still show as 356 bytes.
5) Ran SKTools' Delete PIM info and emptied all MSG for all e-mail accounts. Once again I was unable to delete any of them. it would just reduce them to Zero bytes.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
SeanFromSoCal said:
Menneisyys,
Thanks for getting back to me. I've tried what you have suggested. First backup the entire phone again. Then did the following:
1) Deleted all e-mail accounts in PIM
2) Deleted all registry entries with any information linked to e-mail account name or account's e-mail address
3) Ran SKTools' Messaging cleaner and deleted all files
4) Ran SKTools' Databases cleaner and emptied all fldr* files that aren't matched to SMS messages. I was unable to delete any of them. It would just say "1 process" but when it re-scans it will still show as 356 bytes.
5) Ran SKTools' Delete PIM info and emptied all MSG for all e-mail accounts. Once again I was unable to delete any of them. it would just reduce them to Zero bytes.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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Probably not very helpful now but if they are POP email accounts you are supposed to delete them before the backup as they cannot be restored to a new ROM or Device.