Description of problem:

If the system created an empty file on paging the flow of messages would be interrupted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.3.0

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a few empty files before the first number available on any page folder. 
   Example:

Say you have these two files
   000025.PAGE
   000026.PAGE


Create 000024.PAGE and 000023.PAGE empty
   
2. Restart the server
3. Try to consume messages

Actual results:

No messages are returned

Expected results:

The messages should still arrive

Additional info:

Work around: remove the empty files before restart.