Recently I had Windows2000 Pro collapse and, just before it died completely took the precaution of copying my "Documents and Settings" directory off to another drive in the belief that I could simply restore my mail accounts by copying them back later. I've done this before with 4.7x so it didn't seem to be a problem area... but how wrong I was?
So, a complete reinstall of Win2K and a new download of NS 6.2.1 later, I tried to copy the mail files back to c:\Documents and Settings\...\Profiles\default\<code#>.slt\Mail\ but discovered that on staring these files weren't recognised because, presumably, the <code#> was coded elsewhere. I read further back in this group about changing the prefs.js script to reflect the new folders (actually I copied the saved one and changed the <code#> to the new one generated during the reinstall, which I did, but this only manages to include the mail folders as though they are remote network drives, without any subfolders. I see that the <code#> is also in two other files, panacea.dat and registry.dat. Given that everything so far has been a failure, is there any mileage in changing these two files as well? If so, how do I change registry.dat and does this also mean that I need to change the registry settings somewhere as well? Surely there has to be a better way of recovering a system than spending the best part of a day in recovering the Mail folder's contents? I'm sorely tempted to give up with NS6 altogether and just use IE and a mail program that will import my NS6 mail. However, I'd like to be able to use NS6 - I'm used to it, I don't like Outlook [Express], and it's the final stumbling block to recovering this system. Does anyone have more of clue than I do and can suggest something that will work? I have full backups, so I'm not necessarily scared to try something but I'd prefer to just get it working properly... well, as properly as it had been working before Friday. :-) -- Cris A dog is grateful that you come home, whatever the time.
