Rob, thanks - I had rebooted several times... bobkus... but I followed the dots on the link you sent and copied those folders onto my external hard drive and most of them onto a CD (the critical folder was my SENT batch -- as any email that was important was answered :-) )
I'm not sure where the safest place is to download Netscape 7.something - I don't have a copy on disk - I downloaded from the web at some point... and earlier version came installed. any further suggestions happily accepted :-) xo, ann ---- Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31/03/2010, ann...@nyc.rr.com <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > Oy -- > > Any ideas would be appreciated.. I can't get into my address book, even. > > It crashed > > (coincidence ??? hmmm) just after I accepted the latest WINDOZE upgrade... > > I tried to debug > > to no avail... interestingly, I could trick the computer into using my > > older version of netscape (4.6?) > > but my beautifully organized netscape 7.0 with 13,000 sent messages and > > about 5,000 in the inbox > > cant be reached... I can use this - the online mailbox, ok but the sent > > mail folder on old netscape > > I can't access... > > > > suggestions would be appreciated... for one - a way to retrieve all that is > > in there (even if I cant > > send mail in that fashion) > > > > I loved the way Netscape 7.0 worked - until it failed... everything was so > > tidy.. ah well > > > > on the upside, I just sold an item on ebay that will cover the one night > > I'm staying over in > > that hotel in Chicago on May 7th... the nostalgia trip for me - not sure if > > I told the whole > > lsit about it, but it is the Inn of Chicago and used to be the St Clair.. I > > lived there for about > > 4 years, just before and in the early years of WWII.. > > Hi Ann, > > Initially I would reboot and attempt to open the application again, if > that fails then make a back-up copy of the mail folder then reinstall > the application. > > See Backing up the Netscape 7.x for Windows email folder > http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/615 > > If that fails you might have to attempt to repair the mail files (not pretty). > > Good luck! > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
