AC wrote: > barney wrote: > > >>AC wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>Mozilla forgets mail and news settings since the build 0.9.6 and the >>>problem persists with 0.9.7. The problem started at least two weeks >>>after the 0.9.6 installation. Since then, I have to go through the mail >>>and news setup process almost everytime I "start Windows". I tried a new >>>profile, but that did not help either. I searched newsgroups and some >>>Mozilla/Netscape-related sites but have not encountered anything like >>>that reported before. (OS: W2K SP2.) >>> >>>Any help appreciated. >>> >>>Regards, >>>AC >>> >>> >>> >>> >>This might be caused by sharing profiles between different versions, or >>installing a new build on top of an older one. Incompatibilities >>between builds do exist, mainly due to "improvements" in newer builds. >>You might try completely uninstalling, removing old application and >>profile directories, and starting over. >> >> >> > > Hi Barney, > > I think that you have a good point there. However, I always completely > uninstall the previous version before installing the new one since > Netscape's earliest days (1.1b3 if I recall correctly). Then I replace > the new and empty mail files with the previous version's mail files and > keep going. I was thinking that doing this with Mozilla builds will > someday cause a headache. But Mozilla does not have an option to import > its own mail files. Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora are the only > options. I doesn't let me export them to another format to import back, > either. > > I did NOT have this problem from the build 0.9.0 through 0.9.6. > Everything was very smooth despite the horror stories I have been > reading in Netscape and Mozilla newsgroups and I was thinking that I was > doing the right thing. The source of the problem could be that or > something else, but I still can not figure it out. Perhaps, if someone > could tell me how to import the previous version's mail files into a > brand new installation, that would be the remedy. > > Thanks, > AC > >
Exit Mozilla and bring up the task manager. Look to see if "Mozilla" is still running as a process and if so then end it .... Also, are you sharing a profile with NS 6 ?? Also, look to see if "netscape" may still be "running" even tho exited. -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
