[Jon Polish]

There were two databases open. The damaged one, and the new default database. They are shown in the screenshot in my previous post. All I did was drag a parent item with a number of children. In my first attempt, I tried to copy all of the received email (there are many tens of thousands). Subsequent tries with smaller and smaller amounts of items yielded the same results. The copying dialogue appeared then shortly after the server busy box appeared as shown. While I could dismiss the server busy box by clicking switch to or retry, it re-appeared in very short order. The only way to get rid of it was to cancel the copy dialogue.

By the way, the repair tool is currently doing its thing. You were correct, it is a much faster way to go. I'll let you know if it repairs the corruption.

Jon