On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:41:07 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the mail please let me be more sure: > > The backup directory contains a Mail/Local Folders directory in which I > see two file pairs of interest: > keep and keep msf > Sent and Sent msf > > If I rename them and place them in the current TB directory would it > work of would I screw up the whole thing ?
It should work. The .msf versions are perhaps less important -- they record information such as what's been read and responded to. One thing to note: looking through a couple of my .msf files, I see that the folder name is included at one point. You can *probably* replace "(81=keep)" with with "(81=keep_old)" (assuming that you moved the file "keep" to "keep_old" and "keep.msf" to "keep_old.msf"), but it's probably better to let Thunderbird regenerate the .msf files. You might also have to fiddle with "subscribed folders" for the relevant account. That's something to worry about only if they don't show up as if by magic after you've moved the backups into place. To be perfectly safe, clone your entire TB directory before changing anything, so that you can revert if necessary. You should also do this without downloading any new mail, or even fetching from a local spool. If something get screwed up, you don't want to lose anything. I'd suggest going into offline mode and disabling any local auto-fetching. > I also see an ImapMail/imap.ngi.it. I would not need those since they > should refelct what is ket on the IMAP host. Correct ? That should be the case, unless you've got some local-only folders. (You'll have to go back into online mode, of course.) > In a perfect world I would also like to retrieve the filterrules from both. I can't say for certain, since I don't use TB's filtering (I just run procmail on the IMAP server), but it appears that training.dat has all of the filtering info. Again, copying this over *might* be all you need to do. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
