Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
2009/4/8 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. -- Regards, Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/4/8 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. OK. So when I start up Seamonkey the first time with a fresh .mozilla, I have to set up a email account then close Seamonkey and copy. Hmm, we'll try that then. I make a back up before I try anything so when it doesn't work, I just copy it back. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/4/8 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. I can get the emails copied but when I try to restore my password files, the email disappear. After some testing, it is when I copy the pref.js file that the emails disappear again. I really need my password files. Is there no way to export/import them? I can't find any option to do this. Also, I noticed the the information in prefs.js was point to the wrong number for my emails. I closed Seamonkey and edited those to the new number but it still didn't work. Open to ideas here too. The number is the directory under default. I never did understand what that was about tho. Thanks Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/4/8 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. Well, this is getting frustrating to say the least. All I want is to save my emails and my passwords but I can't seem to save my passwords. When I copy the files needed to save the passwords, I loose my emails and then it crashes again when I go to the website that crashes Seamonkey. It looks like I will have to loose all my passwords and that sucks. I'll be hitting that lost password link for months to get that sorted out. Still open to ideas tho. At least I know now that it is the prefs.js file that has issues with that webiste tho. It works fine until I copy that puppy over to the new .mozilla. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/4/8 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. Well, this is getting frustrating to say the least. All I want is to save my emails and my passwords but I can't seem to save my passwords. When I copy the files needed to save the passwords, I loose my emails and then it crashes again when I go to the website that crashes Seamonkey. It looks like I will have to loose all my passwords and that sucks. I'll be hitting that lost password link for months to get that sorted out. Still open to ideas tho. At least I know now that it is the prefs.js file that has issues with that webiste tho. It works fine until I copy that puppy over to the new .mozilla. Dale I don't use Seamonkey for Email but I did have a problem where parts of my profile directory got corrupted and i had to piece together a year-old backup with the current data. I don't know if the email portion uses the same files as the browser portion, but the sames formed/passwords are in files with .s (sign-on) and .w (wallet) extensions. They have random-looking filenames. I had to edid my prefs.js and put in the names of my old s and w files into the new profile. After that my saved passwords and forms came up like before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/4/8 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. Well, this is getting frustrating to say the least. All I want is to save my emails and my passwords but I can't seem to save my passwords. When I copy the files needed to save the passwords, I loose my emails and then it crashes again when I go to the website that crashes Seamonkey. It looks like I will have to loose all my passwords and that sucks. I'll be hitting that lost password link for months to get that sorted out. Still open to ideas tho. At least I know now that it is the prefs.js file that has issues with that webiste tho. It works fine until I copy that puppy over to the new .mozilla. Dale I don't use Seamonkey for Email but I did have a problem where parts of my profile directory got corrupted and i had to piece together a year-old backup with the current data. I don't know if the email portion uses the same files as the browser portion, but the sames formed/passwords are in files with .s (sign-on) and .w (wallet) extensions. They have random-looking filenames. I had to edid my prefs.js and put in the names of my old s and w files into the new profile. After that my saved passwords and forms came up like before. You are exactly correct. It gave me fits for a while but I finally copied enough of my old prefs.js file over to the new file to get my passwords working again. Basically you have to edit the prefs.js file to point to the new password file and there is more than one spot for that. You also have to copy the key3.db file over as well. I now have my emails and passwords. I had to go wash dishes and think on this issue to figure that out. Now to go set up all my filters again. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/4/8 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. Well, this is getting frustrating to say the least. All I want is to save my emails and my passwords but I can't seem to save my passwords. When I copy the files needed to save the passwords, I loose my emails and then it crashes again when I go to the website that crashes Seamonkey. It looks like I will have to loose all my passwords and that sucks. I'll be hitting that lost password link for months to get that sorted out. Still open to ideas tho. At least I know now that it is the prefs.js file that has issues with that webiste tho. It works fine until I copy that puppy over to the new .mozilla. Dale I don't use Seamonkey for Email but I did have a problem where parts of my profile directory got corrupted and i had to piece together a year-old backup with the current data. I don't know if the email portion uses the same files as the browser portion, but the sames formed/passwords are in files with .s (sign-on) and .w (wallet) extensions. They have random-looking filenames. I had to edid my prefs.js and put in the names of my old s and w files into the new profile. After that my saved passwords and forms came up like before. You are exactly correct. It gave me fits for a while but I finally copied enough of my old prefs.js file over to the new file to get my passwords working again. Basically you have to edit the prefs.js file to point to the new password file and there is more than one spot for that. You also have to copy the key3.db file over as well. I now have my emails and passwords. I had to go wash dishes and think on this issue to figure that out. Now to go set up all my filters again. Ah yes, I forgot the .db files. This reminds me to make backups of my .mozilla directory :) Glad you got it all straightened out!
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
Paul Hartman wrote: Ah yes, I forgot the .db files. This reminds me to make backups of my .mozilla directory :) Glad you got it all straightened out! Well, this little tidbit of info may help too. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_SeaMonkey It tells what all those files are for. That helped me recover the password file at least. There are more links at the bottom as well. What's with Seamonkey 2? I got to check on that. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: What's with Seamonkey 2? I got to check on that. From what I remember, Seamonkey 2 was becoming more Firefox-and-Thunderbird like in its browser and e-mail components. It's using the newer XUL toolkit and has a Firefox-style add-on manager (rendering old seamonkey extensions and themes useless) and I believe the e-mail portion might be compatible with Thunderbird? Basically a modernization of Seamonkey. Not sure how much of that will actually come to reality.
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: What's with Seamonkey 2? I got to check on that. From what I remember, Seamonkey 2 was becoming more Firefox-and-Thunderbird like in its browser and e-mail components. It's using the newer XUL toolkit and has a Firefox-style add-on manager (rendering old seamonkey extensions and themes useless) and I believe the e-mail portion might be compatible with Thunderbird? Basically a modernization of Seamonkey. Not sure how much of that will actually come to reality. Apparently a lot of changes. I found this information: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0a3/changes#new Sounds like some serious changes. I always tell people that Seamonkey is like Firefox and Thunderbird in one program. It's not the same program but they get the meaning at least. It's browser and email together basically. Plus a few other tidbits like chat etc etc. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.
On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla directory. This is what I have done so far: 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my data directory. 2: delete ~/.mozilla 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. 4: close Seamonkey 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some weird number thing. 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but the Mail directory and that work? Thanks Dale :-) :-)
