On Tuesday 25 December 2007 08:14, Afan Pasalic wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > ... > > > > You see. It's _not_ a text file! > > Not? But, I did the same thing to Sent, Trash and Inbox from other > profile (it was much, much smaller). I was able to open it even with > TextPad on Win and search? And I saw everything pretty much > "textual". That mislead me. I apology for this, really wasn't my > intention.
Not to worry, but in many cases, such as this one, we need more information. That's why we ask questions. > > We've been trying to get you to tell us things about this file. Now > > we know, it's not a text file and it's not going to be amenable to > > the usual text processing tools. > > > > Why don't you just access it from Thunderbird? > > I tried once and almost screwed up the "current" T-bird I use now. :) > Maybe I can try on other machine? I'm a KMail guy and my use of Thunderbird (at work) has been fairly unsophisticated, so someone with more experience can probably give you better options, but I'd start by looking for an "import" command that is meant to transfer mail from one installation to another. And if you _don't_ use KMail, then perhaps trying to import the Thunderbird mailbox into a new KMail set-up might work. There's a good chance the KMail code is unrelated to that used in Thunderbird and hence might handle some situations that Thunderbird itself does not (e.g., the possibility that your Thunderbird mailbox is corrupted somehow). Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
