Steven wrote: > > Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > > > > > Steven wrote: > > > >>toylet [mozilla] wrote: > >> > >>>suggest you not to convert the profile. > >>>just point the mozilla to use existing netscape directory. > >>> > >>What would be the best way to that on a Mac? > >> > >> > >>>anyway, burn the old files to a cdrw first for safety sake. > >>> > >>Done that already.. > >> > >>Steven > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > doing the convert "is" the best way on the Mac "if" you want to maintain > > your newsgroups amnd Mailbox. > > As I said I need more disk space to do that, more than three times the > size of the mail folder apparently... > > > Pointing to a Communicator profile could cause corruption. in addition > > to .snm files you'll create .msf files as well. There is no telling what > > will happen. > > I just dropped the contents of a _copy_ of the communicator mail folder > in a new folder in the the local files. What happened was that each > subfolder was converted when it was selected in Netscape Mail & News. > This took some time for larger folders. It looked like the folder was > receiving mail, what happened was a msf file was created next to the > snm file. I gues I can simply trash the snm files now. I have not seen > any problems so far. > > Steven > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes. dump the snm's My original coment was if you pointed to a Profile in the Nescape User Folder in in system preferences. doing as you did should not be a problem. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:275-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/america/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/message/default.htm>
