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!
