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.
