Creating a test directory
It is recommended that you create a test directory where you can try out this program without any chance of deleting messages from PMMail. The easiest way would be to simply copy the entire directory structure to another area on your disk:
For example, assume that PMMail is located in :\southsde\PMMail, and you want to copy it on the same disk.
Create a subdirectory called Test (or anything else you want to), and simply xcopy PMMail into it:
xcopy c:\southsde test\southsde /s
or, you could copy it to a different disk:
xcopy c:\southsde d:\southsde /s
If you are short of disk space then you can setup a copy of your PMMail directories with only some of the data.
For example, assume you have 4 e-mail accounts. Again, assuming a subdirectory called Test, first copy the Tools directory:
mkdir c:\test mkdir c:\test\southsde xcopy c:\southsde\tools c:\test\southsde\tools /s
Then copy the files in the PMMail directory:
mkdir c:\test\southsde\pmmail copy c:\southsde\pmmail\*.* c:\test\southsde\pmmail
Finally copy one of your accounts: (the two lines below should be on one line)
xcopy c:\southsde\pmmail\accnt_0.act c:\test\southsde\pmmail\accnt_0.act /s
When you are done creating a test directory you can then run the archiver from the test directory without any fear of damaging your live files.