In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fa'bio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I got the moz .9.3 and I have the same problems, even with the files
> from the moz 9.2, which I couldn't open.
>
> It's excellent the mail program and features, but I think it should be
> useful to make a "export" tool as well, otherwise we can't store moz
> mails. Unless we keep the same version forever!?!
>
> Thanks
>
> Foca
My way isn't elegant, but it does work (sort of). I also can't say that
I totally understand what's going on.
Mozilla keeps its user-specific files (like mail) in some central
location. On a Mac, it's Documents -> Mozilla. On Linux, it's
/home/user_foo/.mozilla. On Windows98, it's something like Users50.
If you delete your old version of Mozilla and put in your new one, it
should be reading from the same files. You shouldn't have any troubles
deleting your nightly Mozilla and installing a new one so long as you
leave this user-specific folder alone. However, one time, I had to
migrate my Mozilla mail from one machine to another.
On my new install of Mozilla on a different machine, I created my 3
accounts. Mozilla will created the proper Account folders. After I
quit, I then click down the directory path of the main user folder to
the individual Mail Account folder. Usually, the general structure
looks like Top folder - > Users -> RandomName (may be a few levels of
this) -> Mail -> Account Folders. In these Account folders are the
files that hold stuff like your Inbox, sent mail, etc.
I find the account folder that corresponds to my old account folder,
empty the contents of the new Account Folders (like the Inbox file,
sent file, etc.), and replace them with the content of the respective,
old Account Folders. When you next boot up Mozilla, you should see all
of your messages in their proper directories.
I suppose Mozilla will be looking for a certain path and certain folder
names to get to its desired files based on some preference file
somewhere. Thus, I find it easier to replace a group of individual
files en masse rather than replace folders. If you're not careful, you
will replace Mozilla's folder A with your folder B. Then this won't
work as Mozilla will be looking for A and doesn't know it should user B
(without some modification). It'll then create a new user folder.
There is one caveat though. One or two times, I opened up Mozilla mail,
and some of my email were "missing". They were still in the mail text
files, but they weren't showing up in the mail browser. I don't know if
this is because of some flakiness with the mail browser at the time or
if it was because of my transfering method (which I had to do a few
times for other reasons). Sometimes they showed up again when I
rebooted the app or installed a newer version. One time though one
subfolder didn't make it. I haven't had any troubles for quite a while
though.
I have to imagine that there is a better way to do this.
Steve
