Olivier Schreiber wrote: > R.Danner III wrote: > >> Samuel A. Rogers wrote: >> >>> >>> Some how some folders (a few not all) have become unreadable. I am >>> able to read the file (through more on linux) that has the messages >>> in them but Mozilla say it can find the file. It looks like the .msf >>> file has either gotten corrupted or losted. Now how can I recover >>> from it? >>> >>> I am on Linux RH 7.2 >>> Mozilla 9.9+ >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sam. >>> >>> P.S. >>> I do not like this .msf file. Since it is in some form of database >>> format it is unreadable to me. I don't know how to make an entry or >>> remove an mail index from it. >> >> >> >> OK....use 'rm *.msf' in the mail directory with Mozilla TOTALLY >> inactive. When it restarts the mail and news client, it'll rebuild the >> msf index files. I suppose MSF is "Mail Summary File", but if I'm >> wrong, it's no biggie. > > > Hi, > I lost some folders... > In the course of dragging some folders to form hierarchies, I noticed > afterwards whole groups of folders had disappeared. When I went to the > Mail directory to see whether the message and msf files were still > there, they were gone as well. If there is a reaper that removes files > as a result of folder removals, I would have hoped it would place them > in some `Trash ' folder for retrieval but it does not seem to be the > case. Could anyone confirm? > Thanks. > > I am running Mozilla 0.9.9 > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 > (I've got to find a little bit of time to go Linux-native). > you may have moved the folder down into some sub directory..
-dman84
