Claus wrote:
On Oct 28, 12:16 am, Leonidas Jones<[email protected]>
wrote:
Claus wrote:
Hi, I have just installedSeaMonkey2.0. Unfortunately, the
installation deleted ALL mypreviouse-mails. I have been using
SeaMonkey1.1.18, had configured three differente-mailaccounts with
a total amount of about 5GB of e-mails.SeaMonkey2.0literally
deleted the first account (the respective directory on the HD is
really empty) whilst the mails for the second and third account are
still in their respective directories on the HD, but are not
visualized in theirinboxesof the new version ofSeaMonkey. All three
accounts were identically configured (POP3) and connected to the same
e-mailserver. I can download and send new e-mails, but have lost
access to all mypreviousmails.
Mozilla should inform their users that they risk loosing their
existing e-mails when they installSeaMonkey2.0. This is horrible and
I hope that I can recover my lost e-mails from a second copy on
another PC. Do you have any suggestions how to importinboxesfrom the
previousversion? Is there any way to get access to the existing
inboxescreated bySeaMonkey1.1.18 on the same PC which are still on
the hard disk but do not appear in the newinboxes?
Thanks for your help!
Okay, you do realize thatSeaMonkey2.0has a different profile location
then 1.1.x? The profile transfer wizard usually does a very good job of
copying the files, however you do have an unusually large am mount ofemailto be
transferred. I suspect that the tranfer wizard may not have
been able to handle that large an amount in your mainemailaccount.
The original profile is left intact. If I am reading you correctly, your
should be able to transfer the files from the old profile to the new
profile manually.
Give a little more information. Did the profile wizard seem to complete
properly? Is your first account listed as an account, with blank
folders, or is it not listed at all. Did you uninstall the old version?
If you did not, open it and verify that your mail is still there (it
will be).
If SM2.0does not show your first account, create it in the Account
wizard. Do not allow it to download any mail yet.
Once the account is created, closeSeaMonkey. Navigate to your original
profile folder:
C:\\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\(profilename)\xxxxxxxx.slt
In the Mail subfolder, find the flder associated with your first
account, which will be named for the POP server. Copy the whole folder.
Go to your new profile location:
C:\\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application
Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles
There should be a folder called xxxxxxxx.default, your new profile. Open
that, open the mail subfolder, and paste in the copied folder, allowing
to overwrite the existing (empty) folder that is there.
OpenSeaMonkey, and your mail should be restored. Repeat as needed for
the other accounts. If they are showing as accounts, you can probably
just copy their folders over from the Mail folder in the old profile to
the Mail folder in the new.
Lee
Dear Lee,
Thank you very much for your help. Your hints were really helpful. I
have imported manually my previous inboxes. The installation wizard
mixed up my previous accounts, probably due to the large amount of
emails stored in the three accounts. I have different accounts on the
same mailserver. Therefore, the server name for each account is just
the IP address of my general mailserver (XXX.XXX.XXX.XX). Under
SM1.1.18 the different mail folders of each account were stored in
three subdirectories called automatically XXX.XXX.XXX.XX for the first
account, XXX.XXX.XXX-1.XX for the second account and XXX.XXX.XXX-2.XX
for the third account. The installation wizard of SM2.0 changed this
structure. For instance, the first account was called
XXX.XXX.XXX-2.XX, but only some of the folders of the previous first
account were copied to this folder. Some of the previous folders were
not copied at all and some went to the other folders.
Now I have manually renamed the directories according to their
respective accounts. Maybe it would be good idea for a next update of
SM to enable the user to enter the name of each directory in order to
use names related to the account stored in each directory?
During the installation of SM2.0 every thing seemed to work properly,
without any error message. As I did not know that SM2.0 does not use
the folders of the previous version, I really thought that I had lost
all my previous mails...
Thanks again!
Claus
Well, I am so glad it has ended up well for you, and I am very glad to
have helped.
Naming for the mail sub folders would be a nice thing, though it has
been this way basically forever. I suspect there will be much bigger
fish to fry before that comes in.
I am so glad we have SM 2.0 up and running well for you.
Lee
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