Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> 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 :-) :-)
