When it comes to the Internet, there’s only one browser for me.<\/p>\n
Opera<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yes, there are other, more popular options. Firefox. Chrome. Safari. Even Internet Explorer. But it’s Opera that I like. It works for me<\/i>. It’s fast and it’s slick and it’s a power user’s browser.<\/p>\n For the longest time, I was using Opera purely as a browser<\/i>. A year ago, I started using Opera for all of my e-mail needs<\/a>. I wanted to see what it could do for me, and as it turned out, it could do a lot<\/i>.<\/p>\n Until yesterday.<\/p>\n The way Opera’s e-mail system works, as I understand it, it doesn’t actually sort or file anything. Everything — received e-mail, sent e-mail, drafts — are all stored together, and what makes it work, what gives you access to the e-mail, is the indexing system. It’s the view you want that determines what you see. If I want to see all the e-mail dealing with a certain person, I can do that — and I see both things I have received and things I have sent. If I want to see all the e-mail from a mailing list, Opera builds a view for that.<\/p>\n Opera’s mail client, M2, has over the past year completely altered the way I interact with e-mail, to the point where I can’t stand<\/i> being forced to use Outlook at work because Outlook makes me<\/i> do the work, instead of doing the work for<\/i> me the way Opera does. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n What happened yesterday (and for which I have two theories, both of which fit the facts) is this. The index to my e-mail became corrupted. Suddenly, Opera would only register e-mail I had received about nine months ago from a two week period. My sent e-mail? Apparently gone. Drafts? Gone.<\/p>\n I took a deep breath. I turned to Google and started searching.<\/p>\n There were, I thought, two possibilities. One, I had installed the newest release candidate for Opera 10.52. That could have corrupted the e-mail database. Two, I had received an e-mail from an editor and I decided to create a Follow Contact. Either would have altered the database.<\/p>\n I quickly came to the idea that I needed to rebuild the e-mail database indices. But how to do that?<\/p>\n I’m not sure now where I found this idea. But there was a certain simplicity to it.<\/p>\n 1) Move the e-mail folder to the desktop. Restart Opera, and it will find no e-mail information, and it will build a clean database. I had roughly six thousand messages, between sent and received e-mails. It took about forty minutes to import them back into Opera. And when I was done, I had a clean e-mail database.<\/p>\n Or so I thought.<\/p>\n I tried to rebuild filters and Followed Contacts. But trying to do so didn’t work<\/i> especially well. Filters worked fine, but following contacts didn’t work out well; I’d mark a person as a followed contact, but I would find someone else’s e-mail in that virtual folder. I’m not really sure why, but I suspect it’s because of my e-mail contacts; it’s possible that information between the address book and the newly imported e-mail didn’t match. Puzzling it through, I came up with a brand-new approach.<\/p>\n 1) Export my received e-mail to an .mbx file. This took a little bit of time, but the end result worked perfectly<\/i>.<\/p>\n All e-mails are accounted for and where they should be. And my consternation passed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to the Internet, there’s only one browser for me. Opera. Yes, there are other, more popular options. Firefox. Chrome. Safari. Even Internet Explorer. But it’s Opera that I like. It works for me. It’s fast and it’s slick and it’s a power user’s browser. 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\n2) Import the e-mail, now in a folder on the desktop, into a new e-mail account within Opera.<\/p>\n
\n2) Export my e-mail contacts to a raw data file.
\n3) Delete all received e-mail.
\n4) Shut down Opera.
\n5) Delete the contacts.adr file from Opera’s working directory.
\n6) Launch Opera.
\n7) Using my sent e-mail, create new contact entries in my Opera address box. If necessary, then mark a contact as a Followed Contact.
\n8) Import the mbx file into the e-mail database.
\n9) Import the contacts export file to plug gaps.<\/p>\n