Re: Pre-upgrade-to-seamonkey problems
On 12/25, Jeff wrote: . I no longer have any idea what the folder structure of the affected branches is supposed to be. I don't know how Mozilla stores the logical folder structure. FYI. The logical folder structure for Mozilla (SeaMonkey) email folders is: The email folders for a particular profile and mail site are stored in the directory pointed at by the 'Local directory' entry on the panel reached by Edit > Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings > "mail site" > Server-settings. That directory will contain various types of files and subdirectories. The most relevant of these will be: - Those with names of the email folders e.g. abc or Inbox, which hold the messages in the folder concatenated, and in a special format. - Their corresponding descriptors abc.msf, Inbox.msf - If 'abc' is not just a simple email folder, but has subfolders, then there will be a subdirectory/subfolder named abc.sbd The subdirectory abc.sbd will be structures like the main directory. i.e. subfolder file e.g. xyz, its' descriptor xyz.msf, and if any xyz under abc has further subfolders then xyz.sbd et.c I hope that this helps you in exploring your saved email files. Remember you don't have to do it all at once. You can clean up your folders a few at a time. i.e. delete their .msf files, then start SM and click on those folders to have SM rebuild the .msf files, then compress the individual folders (select folder, then right click will present a choice to compress the folder) Just make sure to keep backups of the mail directory as you proceed. But you seem to be a careful fellow anyway. -- Rostyk Also since the extraneous sent is a subfolder of Local folder sent there will now be a subdirectory sent.sbd whose contents are files named sent and sent.msf Let's, for clarity, change the name of the subfolder to xyz! If xyz is a subfolder of abc in Local-folders then we will have the structure Local-folders containing files abc, abc.msf and subdirectory abc.sbd. subdirectory abc.sbd will contain files xyz and xyz.msf And so on, if there is any further structure. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Pre-upgrade-to-seamonkey problems
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote on 12/26/08 00:43: Yeah, I've known about those and tried that solution for a number of problems in the past. Sometimes it helped, and sometimes not. For this particular problem, it hasn't helped. I have tried that solution for this problem twice in the past, and I didn't work either time. :-( when you delete, you're doing so with the program closed, right? Yes, correct. For mass deletion of 1700+ .msf files, use of the command line is essential... why? I use windows search function. When its found them all, then I select them all and delete them all. True... I'm still more used to DOS for many things. I didn't switch until a while after XP came around. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Pre-upgrade-to-seamonkey problems
Jeff wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote on 12/25/08 02:10: Jeff wrote: 1) Will seamonkey run under XP SP1? yes That's a relief! :) At least for the interim. 2) I lost a couple of hundred emails contained in a few dozen folders. You click on the main folder that is supposed to contain those subfolders, and Mozilla basically gets lost in a "black hole." In otherwords, CPU useage goes to 100%, then literally nothing happens, and you have to shut down the program, then get it restarted to get it working again. This is repeatable. close Mozilla/SeaMonkey. Look in the Mail section of of the Moz/SM Profile. There, you will see two types of files, for example inbox [without an extension], and inbox.msf. The files without the extension contains your messages. The *.msf files are indexing files. With Moz/SM closed, delete all those *.msf files. Restart Moz/SM. Did this fix everything? After you get the program going, click on File, Compact Folders. Yeah, I've known about those and tried that solution for a number of problems in the past. Sometimes it helped, and sometimes not. For this particular problem, it hasn't helped. I have tried that solution for this problem twice in the past, and I didn't work either time. :-( when you delete, you're doing so with the program closed, right? For mass deletion of 1700+ .msf files, use of the command line is essential... why? I use windows search function. When its found them all, then I select them all and delete them all. -- *IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help Emails to me may become public Notice: This posting is protected under the Free Speech Laws, which applies everywhere in the FREE world, except for some strange reason, not to the mozilla.org newsgroup servers, where your posting may get you banned. Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon: http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3 http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Pre-upgrade-to-seamonkey problems
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote on 12/25/08 02:10: Jeff wrote: 1) Will seamonkey run under XP SP1? yes That's a relief! :) At least for the interim. 2) I lost a couple of hundred emails contained in a few dozen folders. You click on the main folder that is supposed to contain those subfolders, and Mozilla basically gets lost in a "black hole." In otherwords, CPU useage goes to 100%, then literally nothing happens, and you have to shut down the program, then get it restarted to get it working again. This is repeatable. close Mozilla/SeaMonkey. Look in the Mail section of of the Moz/SM Profile. There, you will see two types of files, for example inbox [without an extension], and inbox.msf. The files without the extension contains your messages. The *.msf files are indexing files. With Moz/SM closed, delete all those *.msf files. Restart Moz/SM. Did this fix everything? After you get the program going, click on File, Compact Folders. Yeah, I've known about those and tried that solution for a number of problems in the past. Sometimes it helped, and sometimes not. For this particular problem, it hasn't helped. I have tried that solution for this problem twice in the past, and I didn't work either time. :-( For mass deletion of 1700+ .msf files, use of the command line is essential... ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Pre-upgrade-to-seamonkey problems
Jeff wrote: 1) Will seamonkey run under XP SP1? yes 2) I lost a couple of hundred emails contained in a few dozen folders. You click on the main folder that is supposed to contain those subfolders, and Mozilla basically gets lost in a "black hole." In otherwords, CPU useage goes to 100%, then literally nothing happens, and you have to shut down the program, then get it restarted to get it working again. This is repeatable. close Mozilla/SeaMonkey. Look in the Mail section of of the Moz/SM Profile. There, you will see two types of files, for example inbox [without an extension], and inbox.msf. The files without the extension contains your messages. The *.msf files are indexing files. With Moz/SM closed, delete all those *.msf files. Restart Moz/SM. Did this fix everything? After you get the program going, click on File, Compact Folders. -- *IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help Emails to me may become public Notice: This posting is protected under the Free Speech Laws, which applies everywhere in the FREE world, except for some strange reason, not to the mozilla.org newsgroup servers, where your posting may get you banned. Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon: http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3 http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
