Hi, Your prompt comments to this email will be greatly appretiated due to the severity of the data loss. We just had a hardware failure on an old cyrus 1.5.19 installation. The mailboxes file is gone, however we have a backup which is few days old. We would like to move people to cyrus 2.0, and I am wondering if this scenario can be played safely. 1. use ctl_mailbox to convert the text database to .db 2. At the same time run the reconstruct command to build the mailbox.db from the actual data. a. Can this be done???, if not which is the best way to go about this. b. Can mailboxes that have entries in the mailboxes.db be accessed at that point? even as mroe being converted or scouted by construct??? c. Another question related to creating mailboxes.db. Did anyone experience a long conversion process from the text version to .db version?? Our file is about 35Mb and the process was taking hours to finish. thanks Adonis -- Adonis El Fakih - President, CEO Engineering Graphical Solutions, Inc. (EGS) 70 Boston Road, Suite A301, Chelmsford MA 01824 USA Fax (978) 244-0544 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]