Henry wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Henry wrote:
I'm running a Dell 3GHz processor with 2G RAM with WinXP Pro SP3.
I'm still running Mozilla ver 1.7.8 and I would like to upgrade to
SeaMonkey. When I look at my Mozilla profile however, I am reluctant to
upgrade and I would like advice from some knowledgeable people. I have
put two Images on http://profile.imageshack.us/user/wa0goz/ to try and
show my concerns. They are both of my profile. Click on the images twice
to enlarge for clarity.
1. Notice I have two .slt files. Which one is correct and will having
two give me problems when I upgrade?
If you drill down to the contents of the two folders, one will have
files dated today and one will have only older files. That should tell
you which is current.
2. My *present* ISP is *Comcast*. If you look at the mail.comcast.net
folder you will see that the files are empty.
3. My past ISP was tcq.net. If you look at pop.tcq.net you will notice
that the files have my email in them. I don't know how this can be,
because I haven't been with tcq.net for years. I can't imagine them
allowing my email to go through them.
Depending on how your filters are set up, messages can be in any
folder, even the "wrong" account. Doesn't mean they went through tcq's
mail server. For example, you may have moved a folder from one account
to another (within the same profile), and if you did, SeaMonkey would
have automatically updated any applicable filters to point to the new
location.
My concern is what will happen if I try to upgrade and import my profile
into the new SeaMonkey?
If you have several accounts but only one profile, you should be fine.
If it sees more than one profile, it will ask you to choose (by
human-readable name, not the alphabet soup used to name the .slt file)
and ignore the other one.
You didn't look at the profiles I posted. My real ISP, Comcast, has
email files dated 7/14/2007, while my old ISP, tcq.net, has email dated
with files dated Dec. 2010 and Jan. 2011.
Well, I can't reconcile these two statements about Comcast:
• you will see that the files are empty
• Comcast has email files dated 7/14/2007
Are you saying it has files from 2007 that are empty? I took your
original statement to mean that the /folders/ were empty, didn't contain
any emails. Now I'm confused.
The one .slt folder has a cache folder with files dated Jan. 2011 while
the .slt folder has files dated 2006 to 2011.
Will moving to SeaMonkey fix the errors that are in my profile and which
profile will it pick up?
Each .slt folder represents one profile. AFAIK it's up to you which one
is used on import (the upgrade leaves your v.1 profile(s) intact, but
imports a copy of one profile, conforming it to v.2 specs, and placing
it in a separate folder -- this is called "migration").
For a detailed response on "fixing errors," I'll defer to the professionals.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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