EnorMouse wrote:
Monica wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Monica wrote:
I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3.
After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which
one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for
some reason puts it in a "wrong" location on my hard drive.
Before the update it put all my mail accounts in C:\Documents and
Settings\Administratör\Application
Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\s0r5u2w5.slt\Mail\
After the update it puts it in a place that actually doesn´t really
exist on my hard drive (SM creates it)
C:\Program\Netscape\Users\Netscape 7.1\tng6b77b.slt\Mail\
I don´t have Netscape 7.1 on my computer! I have even tried to delete
the mail accounts that have been placed there, and then deleted the
created Netscape folder/subfolders from under Program and then tried
to create the mail accounts again to get them in the right location.
It does not work, SM continues to create that particular path to put
all my new mail accounts in.
Does anyone have a clue as to what could be going on here?
Unless you are creating them in a new profile, no. If these are going in
a new profile, maybe. When creating a new profile you can tune where
things are put (I'm not running Windows so i won't assume it's identical
to Linux). If you ever had Netscape on the machine there might be
left-over cruft in the registry or other control location which has that
string and directory.
You can try creating another new profile and see if it offers to put it
in NetScape... Quick detective work.
No I´m not creating them in a new profile. However, in profile manager I
can see a profile called "default" which I do not use, nor have I ever
created it.
I tried the trick you wrote about above, to create a new profile. It did
not offer to put the new profile in Netscape, but under the same path as
my "old" ones; in C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Application
Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\
Could there be something strange going on with that "default" profile
(which SM must have created when I upgraded), even though I don´t use it?
Like Bill, I have no idea what SM is up to and have not added any
accounts lately.
As the sole user of my computer, I dislike the habit of programs to
store their data in My Documents, or alongside the program files or in
the Documents and Settings folders. I actually have a separate drive for
data and try to point all of my programs to appropriate folders on it.
This means that I can take separate backups of my programs and my data
(including all my email files).
Anyway, to fix your existing problem, copy the account folder to where
you want it to be. Go into SM and the Account Settings and at the bottom
of the Server Settings page you will see a box with the file location
in. Change this to the new location and shut down SM.
Rename or move to somewhere safe the old account folder - you will not
be able to do this with any part of SM running as it will have locks on it.
Fire back up SM and it should then find the account files in their new
location. When you are happy that it is working correctly, you can
delete the old account folder and files.
Hope that this helps.
Thank you EnorMouse, I did exactly what you wrote and it seems to work
so far!
However, when I tried to create another new mail account...sure enough
it went straight into the "wrong" (Netscape) location! Is there anything
I can delete somewhere to get rid of that Netscape path for good, and so
that SM doesn´t create it again even after I have deleted it?
And how about that extra profile "default" which I never
created...should I just delete that?
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