Re: Time Machine questions

[Beverly Howard]

I find a need to access a lot of missing emails from a few months 

back. 
I regularly bsck up my HD from my iMac to an external Maxtor drive, 

using SuperDuper! and Time Machine.  

A disclaimer... I'm not a mac person.

Depending on your tech skills level, it may be helpful to know that 
Seamonkey's messages are stored in plain text files including their headers.


As a result, a good text editor with a search function that allows 
searching multiple files and folders can quickly find strings that seem 
to be taking a long time for your current tools, plus allow you to 
instantly read the message itself.


Not sure how the message files are named on the mac, but in windows, the 
files containing the messages don't have name extensions, so, searching 
the mail folder using the file wildcard *. will hit only the files 
containing messages.


Beverly Howard




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Time Machine questions

[Keith Whaley]

I find a need to access a lot of missing emails from a few months back.

I regularly bsck up my HD from my iMac to an external Maxtor drive, using 
SuperDuper! and Time Machine.


Time machine seems cumbersome, in that that fancy-schmancy active splash
screen obscures any accessible menu item where I might command it to
retrieve data from older backups. All of which means I haven’t learned how 
to use it yet...


Be that as it may, do older SM messages still reside inside some folder on 
those backups, so I can access, read and transfer them back to my current SM 
folder?


In other words, how can I find and restore older Inbox messages from a few 
months ago?


Or can’t I?

keith whaley


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Re: Time Machine questions

[Paul Bergsagel]

Keith Whaley wrote:

I find a need to access a lot of missing emails from a few months back.

I regularly bsck up my HD from my iMac to an external Maxtor drive,
using SuperDuper! and Time Machine.

Time machine seems cumbersome, in that that fancy-schmancy active splash
screen obscures any accessible menu item where I might command it to
retrieve data from older backups. All of which means I haven’t learned
how to use it yet...

Be that as it may, do older SM messages still reside inside some folder
on those backups, so I can access, read and transfer them back to my
current SM folder?

In other words, how can I find and restore older Inbox messages from a
few months ago?

Or can’t I?

keith whaley



Yes time machine would save all your old emails.

Before you do anything back up your SeaMonkey user profile so if 
something goes wrong you won't loose any of you current profile 
information. Your SeaMonkey user profile is located in in your home 
(user) folder.



Steps to retrieve your older emails:
1. Go to the folder Users-Library-Application Support-SeaMonkey. Copy 
the folder named Seamonkey to your desktop. Rename this folder Old 
Seamonkey. (This last step is very important)


2.Quit Seamonkey.

3. Using time machine locate the date you want the emails from (i.e. Feb 
26, May 4, etc.). Once you have located the date of the emails you wish 
to retrieve, navigate to Users- (your MacOS 
profile)-Library-Application Support-Seamonkey  Copy the folder 
(SeaMonkey) to your desktop.


4. Replace the SeaMonkey folder in your user profile with the one you 
copied to your desktop from time machine. (Users- (your MacOS 
profile)-Library-Application Support-Seamonkey)


5. Launch SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey will now be accessing an older version of 
your profile. You can now read your older emails.


6. When you are done reading the old emails quit Seamonkey.

7. To restore your current profile rename the folder on your desktop 
from Old Seamonkey to Seamonkey. Replace the Seamonkey folder in 
your users folder with the folder labeled SeaMonkey on the desktop. 
Launch SeaMonkey and you will now be using your current SeaMonkey profile.


Someone may know an easier method to read your old emails. In any case 
Time machine does save all your old emails and using the steps above you 
can retrieve them. JUST BE SURE TO MAKE A COPY OF YOUR CURRENT SEAMONKEY 
PROFILE  BEFORE YOU COPY THE OLDER SEAMONKEY PROFILE FROM  TIME MACHINE 
JUST IN CASE ANYTHING GOES WRONG SO YOU WILL NOT LOOSE ANY CURRENT 
PROFILE INFORMATION.

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