On Oct 28, 6:45 pm, Claus <[email protected]> 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 can tell you this; A real issue is that SM 2 creates brand new sub-folders with new default pop account folders when importing the SM 1.x email. So if you didn't look in the SM v1.x Account Settings Manager and click Server Settings and then note the Local Directory Location and see which original folder name applied to each pop account folder then yes SM2 made a different folder name. Thus copying the folders directly to the SM2 folders placed the emails in the wrong folders. The work around in the SM 2 profile, is to delete all of the files and folders in each pop account folder but leave the pop account folder empty and then copy the correct files and folders from the SM 1.x mail pop folders to the new ones. This will make sure that they are displayed in the correct account. I suggested a solution but at this point I am being ignored. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/browse_thread/thread/bffac20bdd2d2459# _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
