Steven wrote: > Phillip M. Jones, C > > >>> 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. > > > > Thanks everybody for all the comments and help, everything works fine now > as far as I can see, I still wonder though why the 'official' method to > migrate > a profile would take so much disk space... > > > Steven > >
because all file attachments are stored inside of your email file.. thats what causes them to be really large. Even after you save them to another folder on you drive, they are still stored in there till you delete those emails from your mail folders. -dman84
