If you wish to rescue your folder structure, read the steps below very carefully and try to follow them precisely and hopefully you will be able to recover your data.ġ. By the way, these memory constraints apply to both of the recovery procedures the one described above and the other one described below.

Otherwise, you would just be wasting your valuable time. So, I would recommend that you make sure you have at least 300GB of free space on your hard disk and at least 8GB of RAM installed. (WIERD BUT VERY TRUE) I also did notice that during the rebuild, my computer was using about 6.8GB of RAM. I freed up even more space and tried again with 310GB of free space on my hard drive, and that succeeded to build. And so I freed up some space and tried again with 200GB of free space on my hard drive, but that failed too. It even failed to rebuild a non-corrupted identity. My database is 12.7GB and I had 120GB of free space on my hard drive, but that failed to recover. One thing to keep in mind though, before I start explaining the second recovery method, is that memory is the key to recovery. If you don’t share my problem of having to recover the folders named and organised and sorted, and you just need your messages back, then this first solution would be easier for you. In fact, in my case, it would almost be impossible. When my data was recovered in this manner, I had 558 folders at the top level all named “Recovered Folder 1″, “Recovered Folder 2″, “Recovered Folder 3″, etc… Obviously, it would be a nightmare to try and rebuild that hierarchical structure again. I had 10 folders at the top of my hierarchy, with loads of subfolders inside subfolders inside subfolders etc… In total the number of folders I have is 558). This will result in you being able to recover all of your data, but you would lose all you folder names and hierarchical structure. The first way is basically following the instructions at -restoring-and-upgrading-fails/, however, with the following modification.ĭo NOT copy the folder “FOLDERS”, but copy “CATEGORIES” instead. There are two different ways you can recover your data.

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