Re: Transfer folders included messages?
OldTimer wrote: Martin Feitag wrote: OldTimer schrieb: Martin Feitag wrote: Edward S. Kostyk schrieb: I am running Seamonkey 1.1.17 on Win XP Home SP 2. I have set up a new mail account (for my personal mail). I would like to transfer some folders (with their messages ) from the original account to the new account, but I haven't a clue as to how to do this. Can someone get me going in the right direction. To locate your profile, the Profile FAQ: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/ Information about the folders and files within the Profile folder: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey especially: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#transferring_mail regards Martin Martin, you sent me on quite a learning journey with your references. As they say on Star Trek, [I've] gone where [I've] never gone before Unfortunately, this has now raised a number of questions that I didn't have before (probably a good thing). I hope you or others can stay with me to bring this to a conclusion. 1) What's the difference between a Profile and an Account? I have added 2 new accounts (Work Personal) as I've now moved to a new ISP with wireless. I added these using Edit Mail Newsgroup Account Settings. I didn't do anything regarding profiles. Is there more for me to do? A Profile is the entire thing which stores all settings/preferences which you might set by the GUI (concerning Browser and News/Emails etc). It also contains all Email- and Newsgroupaccounts. Every profile may contain as many Email- and Newsgroupaccounts as the user wishes to. You can backup and restore your profile entirely to any Seamonkey 1.1.x installation at any time (at least while SM is closed ;-) ). 2) I have located 2 profile folders : Profile\default\f68gg1hi.slt and Profile\SeaMonkey\snxbxfle.slt the first one has 6 folders: Pop1.sympatico.ca, Pop1.sympatico-1.ca, kingston.net, kingston-1.net, kingston-2.net and Local Folders. I found that Pop1.sympatico.ca refers to my original account and Pop1.sympatico-1.ca refers to my Work account and kingston-2.net refers to my Personal account. I don't know what the remaining 3 folders are for (kingston.net, kingston-1.net, Local Folders). I am particularly confused why one of the new accounts (Work) is named with Sympatico (my original account name), when there is no reference to Sympatico in the Account Settings. Have I done something wrong even though the accounts seem to be working O.K.? Those you don't know about are probably just leftovers from accounts which...um...I don't know what happened to them ;-) (except Local Folders of course). Feel free to test that by removing one folder after another from that profile-directory and starting Seamonkey each time you have removed one. As long as everything is at it's place you're just removing trash and so you can delete that stuff which you have successfully take out and you therefore probably don't need. 3) As I want to transfer only specific folders and their sub-folders to the 2 new accounts, do I just Select Cut the folders files (not .msf) in Pop1.sympatico.ca and Paste them to either Pop1.sympatico-1.ca and kingston-2.net? Yes you can cut and paste the folders (each folder is represented by a file, the one without .msf as you already found out :-) ) to another account. It doesn't matter if this account lies in the same profile or not. (I guess in your case all accounts are in one profile) Easiest way would be to replace the existing inbox etc. in the new account with your old one. Note: If you already have mails in your new account which are not in your old account and therefore should not be lost, you can't replace them but will need to rename inbox etc. from your old account to InboxOld or something like that and paste it to the new account with that new name. Seamonkey will then automatically show those additional Folders in your new account besides the standard folders on the next start. I hope I could help and clarify some things. kind regards Martin Thanks Martin, this should keep me busy over the next few days. I'll report back how things went. Ed Sorry, but I was called away and just returned. I've run into a problem. Please let me know if I need to open a new thread or can I continue with this. Thanks, ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Transfer folders included messages?
Martin Feitag wrote: Edward S. Kostyk schrieb: I am running Seamonkey 1.1.17 on Win XP Home SP 2. I have set up a new mail account (for my personal mail). I would like to transfer some folders (with their messages ) from the original account to the new account, but I haven't a clue as to how to do this. Can someone get me going in the right direction. To locate your profile, the Profile FAQ: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/ Information about the folders and files within the Profile folder: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey especially: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#transferring_mail regards Martin Martin, you sent me on quite a learning journey with your references. As they say on Star Trek, [I've] gone where [I've] never gone before Unfortunately, this has now raised a number of questions that I didn't have before (probably a good thing). I hope you or others can stay with me to bring this to a conclusion. 1) What's the difference between a Profile and an Account? I have added 2 new accounts (Work Personal) as I've now moved to a new ISP with wireless. I added these using Edit Mail Newsgroup Account Settings. I didn't do anything regarding profiles. Is there more for me to do? 2) I have located 2 profile folders : Profile\default\f68gg1hi.slt and Profile\SeaMonkey\snxbxfle.slt the first one has 6 folders: Pop1.sympatico.ca, Pop1.sympatico-1.ca, kingston.net, kingston-1.net, kingston-2.net and Local Folders. I found that Pop1.sympatico.ca refers to my original account and Pop1.sympatico-1.ca refers to my Work account and kingston-2.net refers to my Personal account. I don't know what the remaining 3 folders are for (kingston.net, kingston-1.net, Local Folders). I am particularly confused why one of the new accounts (Work) is named with Sympatico (my original account name), when there is no reference to Sympatico in the Account Settings. Have I done something wrong even though the accounts seem to be working O.K.? 3) As I want to transfer only specific folders and their sub-folders to the 2 new accounts, do I just Select Cut the folders files (not .msf) in Pop1.sympatico.ca and Paste them to either Pop1.sympatico-1.ca and kingston-2.net? I hope you can make sense out of all this, An old-timer trying to keep up. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Transfer folders included messages?
Martin Feitag wrote: OldTimer schrieb: Martin Feitag wrote: Edward S. Kostyk schrieb: I am running Seamonkey 1.1.17 on Win XP Home SP 2. I have set up a new mail account (for my personal mail). I would like to transfer some folders (with their messages ) from the original account to the new account, but I haven't a clue as to how to do this. Can someone get me going in the right direction. To locate your profile, the Profile FAQ: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/ Information about the folders and files within the Profile folder: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey especially: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#transferring_mail regards Martin Martin, you sent me on quite a learning journey with your references. As they say on Star Trek, [I've] gone where [I've] never gone before Unfortunately, this has now raised a number of questions that I didn't have before (probably a good thing). I hope you or others can stay with me to bring this to a conclusion. 1) What's the difference between a Profile and an Account? I have added 2 new accounts (Work Personal) as I've now moved to a new ISP with wireless. I added these using Edit Mail Newsgroup Account Settings. I didn't do anything regarding profiles. Is there more for me to do? A Profile is the entire thing which stores all settings/preferences which you might set by the GUI (concerning Browser and News/Emails etc). It also contains all Email- and Newsgroupaccounts. Every profile may contain as many Email- and Newsgroupaccounts as the user wishes to. You can backup and restore your profile entirely to any Seamonkey 1.1.x installation at any time (at least while SM is closed ;-) ). 2) I have located 2 profile folders : Profile\default\f68gg1hi.slt and Profile\SeaMonkey\snxbxfle.slt the first one has 6 folders: Pop1.sympatico.ca, Pop1.sympatico-1.ca, kingston.net, kingston-1.net, kingston-2.net and Local Folders. I found that Pop1.sympatico.ca refers to my original account and Pop1.sympatico-1.ca refers to my Work account and kingston-2.net refers to my Personal account. I don't know what the remaining 3 folders are for (kingston.net, kingston-1.net, Local Folders). I am particularly confused why one of the new accounts (Work) is named with Sympatico (my original account name), when there is no reference to Sympatico in the Account Settings. Have I done something wrong even though the accounts seem to be working O.K.? Those you don't know about are probably just leftovers from accounts which...um...I don't know what happened to them ;-) (except Local Folders of course). Feel free to test that by removing one folder after another from that profile-directory and starting Seamonkey each time you have removed one. As long as everything is at it's place you're just removing trash and so you can delete that stuff which you have successfully take out and you therefore probably don't need. 3) As I want to transfer only specific folders and their sub-folders to the 2 new accounts, do I just Select Cut the folders files (not .msf) in Pop1.sympatico.ca and Paste them to either Pop1.sympatico-1.ca and kingston-2.net? Yes you can cut and paste the folders (each folder is represented by a file, the one without .msf as you already found out :-) ) to another account. It doesn't matter if this account lies in the same profile or not. (I guess in your case all accounts are in one profile) Easiest way would be to replace the existing inbox etc. in the new account with your old one. Note: If you already have mails in your new account which are not in your old account and therefore should not be lost, you can't replace them but will need to rename inbox etc. from your old account to InboxOld or something like that and paste it to the new account with that new name. Seamonkey will then automatically show those additional Folders in your new account besides the standard folders on the next start. I hope I could help and clarify some things. kind regards Martin Thanks Martin, this should keep me busy over the next few days. I'll report back how things went. Ed ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Transfer folders included messages?
Edward S. Kostyk schrieb: I am running Seamonkey 1.1.17 on Win XP Home SP 2. I have set up a new mail account (for my personal mail). I would like to transfer some folders (with their messages ) from the original account to the new account, but I haven't a clue as to how to do this. Can someone get me going in the right direction. To locate your profile, the Profile FAQ: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/ Information about the folders and files within the Profile folder: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey especially: http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#transferring_mail regards Martin ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
