Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel
David Goldfield wrote: OK, first I want to apologize for the frenetic state of my previous messages regarding this issue. It was late at night, I panicked and this explains the lack of clarity in my messages regarding this issue. Let me explain the situation in terms which, I hope, will be

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
David Goldfield wrote: I think the subject of my message summarizes my issue. Not really. It is always best to present your question in the body of your post, rather than writing a novella in the Subject line. For example, yours could read Unexpected Safe Mode boot deletes email and leave

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
Beauregard T. Shagnasty: David Goldfield wrote: First, let me say that I am in no way mad at Mozilla and this was my fault for not properly researching the consequences of going into safe mode and resetting preferences. I can see no way that a simple Safe Mode start would kill your

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Hartmut Figge wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty: David Goldfield wrote: First, let me say that I am in no way mad at Mozilla and this was my fault for not properly researching the consequences of going into safe mode and resetting preferences. I can see no way that a simple Safe Mode start

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
Beauregard T. Shagnasty: Hartmut Figge wrote: Check 'Reset all..' or all checkboxes and then press 'Make Changes and Restart'. But have a current backup of your profile ready. ;) Doesn't say anything about deleting email accounts ... :-/ Well, the accounts are stored in the prefs.js. And if

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread David Goldfield
OK, first I want to apologize for the frenetic state of my previous messages regarding this issue. It was late at night, I panicked and this explains the lack of clarity in my messages regarding this issue. Let me explain the situation in terms which, I hope, will be clearer. I am using

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread Philip TAYLOR
David Goldfield wrote: I am using Seamonkey 2.4.1 on a Windows XP Pro machine running SP3 if that is all relevant. I had been having issues with certain Web pages loading slower than normal. I did pretty much all of the right things: disabled all unnecessary and even some necessary

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread David Goldfield
Philip TAYLOR wrote: Once you have copied C:\documents and settings\david\application data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ot85ufde.default\Mail to somewhere else for safety, I would recommend just going through the New e-mail account wizard, giving it all of your standard data, and then,

Re: Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-20 Thread Philip TAYLOR
David Goldfield wrote: I almost have tears in my eyes; that did work. The issue is that I have a few pop3 accounts and I was able to copy the appropriate files containing the email messages back into the main default mail profile folder and tell Seamonkey which file to use within that

Safe Mode/Email Deleted/Am I Up a Creek Without a Paddle

2011-11-19 Thread David Goldfield
I think the subject of my message summarizes my issue. First, let me say that I am in no way mad at Mozilla and this was my fault for not properly researching the consequences of going into safe mode and resetting preferences. The problem is that I did not know that my emails and mail