Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2009/4/8 Dale <[email protected]>: > >> 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 :-) :-) :-)
