Corrupt POSTED folder. What should I do?

From: David Maro (dmaro@post1.com)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:21:19 +0800 (SGT)

Hello,

Im using Yarn 0.92 for OS/2. There is something wrong with my POSTED folder. I have around 30-40 messages in it but whenever I tried to open it, I would only see 2 messages listed, the first of which contains all the message bodies of the 30-40 messages and the second which contains only their headers. Im not sure what corrupted the folder but when I tried to use FIXFOLD.EXE to salvage the folder, I get:

Message at offset 1312 has size 644106784. Skipped 36 bytes.
Message at offset 66884 has size 980641134. Skipped 1522 bytes.

Now, the 980641134 figure is obviously ridiculous. Ive also tried using other Yarn utilities to try to resolve this problem but wasnt successful. After some investigation, Ive somewhat determined that the trouble is caused by the second message. Some indicators in the message header must have been damaged, but without knowing what, I could not attempt to reconstruct the thing.

Id appreciate it if someone could advise me on the solution.

Thank you.

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