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Computers Don’t Like Losing Power

It seems sometime a few hours ago power went out at my house, just for a few seconds. But it was enough. It seems when my computer came back up, my mail index or something was all screwed up. Apple’s lovely little mail program is now working on reimporting my last 12+ years of email. 23K messages done so far out of 2.2M emails in my archive. Wow. 2.2 Million emails? Now, of course, quite a lot of those are spam. And a lot are duplicates accidentally created at various points over the years. But whatever.

At the moment it is saying 22 more hours to complete reimporting my mail.

I hope it succeeds in a happy way that leaves everything the way I would expect.

If not, it will be time for my first really important test of Time Machine.

I am somewhat impatient and tempted to just try that restore rather than waiting 22 hours, but I figure I’ll let Mail.app do what it wants first.

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