Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Daniel wrote: Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? Monica have a look at Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, select Server Settings of your Mail Account and at the bottom of that Screen it shows the location of your Local Directory. Is this set to your real profile location or to the imaginary Netscape location?? Daniel Sorry that I haven´t replied until now but I´ve been away. All my current Mail Accounts are (now) set to my real profile location. But, as soon as I try and create a new mail account it gets set to the imaginary Netscape location!!! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Bill Davidsen wrote: EnorMouse wrote: EnorMouse wrote: Monica wrote: EnorMouse wrote: Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? Like Bill, I have no idea what SM is up to and have not added any accounts lately. As the sole user of my computer, I dislike the habit of programs to store their data in My Documents, or alongside the program files or in the Documents and Settings folders. I actually have a separate drive for data and try to point all of my programs to appropriate folders on it. This means that I can take separate backups of my programs and my data (including all my email files). Anyway, to fix your existing problem, copy the account folder to where you want it to be. Go into SM and the Account Settings and at the bottom of the Server Settings page you will see a box with the file location in. Change this to the new location and shut down SM. Rename or move to somewhere safe the old account folder - you will not be able to do this with any part of SM running as it will have locks on it. Fire back up SM and it should then find the account files in their new location. When you are happy that it is working correctly, you can delete the old account folder and files. Hope that this helps. Thank you EnorMouse, I did exactly what you wrote and it seems to work so far! However, when I tried to create another new mail account...sure enough it went straight into the wrong (Netscape) location! Is there anything I can delete somewhere to get rid of that Netscape path for good, and so that SM doesn´t create it again even after I have deleted it? And how about that extra profile default which I never created...should I just delete that? I do have to be slightly careful because I have everything pointed at E:\Mail Newsgroups\SeaMonkey so things might not work quite the same way. I have just found out that clicking on the Profile Manager short-cut in my SeaMonkey menu just opens a copy of SM - there again I am not 100% sure that I bothered to install it, as I only work with my own single profile. Anyway, getting back to what I do feel happy to comment on, yes the trick of moving the folders is a one off and has to be done for every account. When I last set up a new account SM stuck it in my Documents Settings folder and I had to go through the same procedure again. If you have a number of accounts to set up, you can set them all up first and then run through the same procedure for each of them in one go. Using Explorer, I know that the only location of my Profiles folder is also under E:\Mail Newsgroups\SeaMonkey and I have a single folder under it with my own name on it. I do not have a second folder called 'Default'. It would seem that so long as you can confirm that you have an active profile sub-folder in your own name, you do not need the Default one as well. You might like to check out the actual files before deciding to delete the default profile. I have had a quick run through the
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? Monica have a look at Edit-MailNewsgroup Account Settings, select Server Settings of your Mail Account and at the bottom of that Screen it shows the location of your Local Directory. Is this set to your real profile location or to the imaginary Netscape location?? Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
EnorMouse wrote: EnorMouse wrote: Monica wrote: EnorMouse wrote: Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? Like Bill, I have no idea what SM is up to and have not added any accounts lately. As the sole user of my computer, I dislike the habit of programs to store their data in My Documents, or alongside the program files or in the Documents and Settings folders. I actually have a separate drive for data and try to point all of my programs to appropriate folders on it. This means that I can take separate backups of my programs and my data (including all my email files). Anyway, to fix your existing problem, copy the account folder to where you want it to be. Go into SM and the Account Settings and at the bottom of the Server Settings page you will see a box with the file location in. Change this to the new location and shut down SM. Rename or move to somewhere safe the old account folder - you will not be able to do this with any part of SM running as it will have locks on it. Fire back up SM and it should then find the account files in their new location. When you are happy that it is working correctly, you can delete the old account folder and files. Hope that this helps. Thank you EnorMouse, I did exactly what you wrote and it seems to work so far! However, when I tried to create another new mail account...sure enough it went straight into the wrong (Netscape) location! Is there anything I can delete somewhere to get rid of that Netscape path for good, and so that SM doesn´t create it again even after I have deleted it? And how about that extra profile default which I never created...should I just delete that? I do have to be slightly careful because I have everything pointed at E:\Mail Newsgroups\SeaMonkey so things might not work quite the same way. I have just found out that clicking on the Profile Manager short-cut in my SeaMonkey menu just opens a copy of SM - there again I am not 100% sure that I bothered to install it, as I only work with my own single profile. Anyway, getting back to what I do feel happy to comment on, yes the trick of moving the folders is a one off and has to be done for every account. When I last set up a new account SM stuck it in my Documents Settings folder and I had to go through the same procedure again. If you have a number of accounts to set up, you can set them all up first and then run through the same procedure for each of them in one go. Using Explorer, I know that the only location of my Profiles folder is also under E:\Mail Newsgroups\SeaMonkey and I have a single folder under it with my own name on it. I do not have a second folder called 'Default'. It would seem that so long as you can confirm that you have an active profile sub-folder in your own name, you do not need the Default one as well. You might like to check out the actual files before deciding to delete the default profile. I have
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? I asked this question of a friend of mine, and we discussed it in a support chat room last night. From norm: Netscape 7.1 is circa 2003, and may have been included by the oem on the machine. The user should check in add/remove programs to see if it exists there, and uninstall from there it if it is listed. That may take care of seamonkey finding the profile, as it seems to be doing. As for why seamonkey is finding that profile location, I have no idea. HTH -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? Like Bill, I have no idea what SM is up to and have not added any accounts lately. As the sole user of my computer, I dislike the habit of programs to store their data in My Documents, or alongside the program files or in the Documents and Settings folders. I actually have a separate drive for data and try to point all of my programs to appropriate folders on it. This means that I can take separate backups of my programs and my data (including all my email files). Anyway, to fix your existing problem, copy the account folder to where you want it to be. Go into SM and the Account Settings and at the bottom of the Server Settings page you will see a box with the file location in. Change this to the new location and shut down SM. Rename or move to somewhere safe the old account folder - you will not be able to do this with any part of SM running as it will have locks on it. Fire back up SM and it should then find the account files in their new location. When you are happy that it is working correctly, you can delete the old account folder and files. Hope that this helps. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? I asked this question of a friend of mine, and we discussed it in a support chat room last night. From norm: Netscape 7.1 is circa 2003, and may have been included by the oem on the machine. The user should check in add/remove programs to see if it exists there, and uninstall from there it if it is listed. That may take care of seamonkey finding the profile, as it seems to be doing. As for why seamonkey is finding that profile location, I have no idea. HTH I have checked and there is no Netscape in add/remove! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: New mail accounts created in wrong location
Monica wrote: EnorMouse wrote: Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a wrong location on my hard drive. Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\ After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really exist on my hard drive (SM creates it) C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\ I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location. It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put all my new mail accounts in. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here? Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that string and directory. You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I can see a profile called default which I do not use, nor have I ever created it. I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as my old ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ Could there be something strange going on with that default profile (which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it? Like Bill, I have no idea what SM is up to and have not added any accounts lately. As the sole user of my computer, I dislike the habit of programs to store their data in My Documents, or alongside the program files or in the Documents and Settings folders. I actually have a separate drive for data and try to point all of my programs to appropriate folders on it. This means that I can take separate backups of my programs and my data (including all my email files). Anyway, to fix your existing problem, copy the account folder to where you want it to be. Go into SM and the Account Settings and at the bottom of the Server Settings page you will see a box with the file location in. Change this to the new location and shut down SM. Rename or move to somewhere safe the old account folder - you will not be able to do this with any part of SM running as it will have locks on it. Fire back up SM and it should then find the account files in their new location. When you are happy that it is working correctly, you can delete the old account folder and files. Hope that this helps. Thank you EnorMouse, I did exactly what you wrote and it seems to work so far! However, when I tried to create another new mail account...sure enough it went straight into the wrong (Netscape) location! Is there anything I can delete somewhere to get rid of that Netscape path for good, and so that SM doesn´t create it again even after I have deleted it? And how about that extra profile default which I never created...should I just delete that? I do have to be slightly careful because I have everything pointed at E:\Mail Newsgroups\SeaMonkey so things might not work quite the same way. I have just found out that clicking on the Profile Manager short-cut in my SeaMonkey menu just opens a copy of SM - there again I am not 100% sure that I bothered to install it, as I only work with my own single profile. Anyway, getting back to what I do feel happy to comment on, yes the trick of moving the folders is a one off and has to be done for every account. When I last set up a new account SM stuck it in my Documents Settings folder and I had to go through the same procedure again. If you have a number of accounts to set up, you can set them all up first and then run through the same procedure for each of them in one go. Using Explorer, I know that the only location of my Profiles folder is also under E:\Mail Newsgroups\SeaMonkey and I have a single folder under it with my own name on it. I do not have a second folder called 'Default'. It would seem that so long as you can confirm that you have an active profile sub-folder in your own name, you do not need the Default one as well. You might like to check out the actual files before deciding to delete the default profile. I have had a quick run through the Preferences
