Larry S. wrote:
You point out that just pasting one folder into another will do a lot of
damage to the target folder. O.K., got that. Good cautionary note!
However, here's the problem (maybe my ignorance!). The only mail account
that shows in Mail/News is FP, so I can't figure out how to "work within
SM". The only way to see the other account folders in the profile is
with Widows Explorer. In that context, I don't know of any practical way
to move individual messages into the FP folder. Opening any one of the V
files or folders does display the messages, but with every character of
every message showing (all of them, all at once)! There's no convenient
listing, even when opened with SM. (I get "clean" text with Word Viewer,
but no header information and no listing of the folder's contents). So,
no way to select an individual message for transfer to the FP Inbox.
I must be missing something very basic here, but am stuck at the moment.
Thank you for your help so far. Sorry this is taking a lot of time. Wish
my descriptions were clearer.
OK, let's talk about the Windows folder structure. You should see
something like this:
C:\...\Mozilla\Profiles\q2r9hq0e.default\Mail\
(where "q2r9hq0e" is an arbitrary string of eight characters)
Depending on your version of Windows, the "..." can vary.
Under this, you should have one or more folders that look like this:
\mail.verizon.net
\mail.fairpoint.com
\pop.somethingelse.com
etc.
It should be obvious from the names which is the FP folder and which is
the Verizon folder.
WARNING: Do all of the following with SM closed.
Within the FP folder, create a new folder called "OldMail.sbd" (or
whatever you like, as long as it ends with .sbd). This extension tells
SM that this is a folder with subfolders.
Navigate to the Verizon mail folder, place the cursor in the right-hand
pane and select the entire contents of that folder (CTRL-A), including
individual files as well as folders. Copy that into (NOT over, but
into!) \OldMail.sbd\.
Launch SeaMonkey and you should see all your old messages, folders, and
subfolders neatly nested under a folder called "OldMail."
Move/delete/file/organize as you see fit. If you end up with an empty
OldMail folder, feel free to delete it.
If this doesn't work, you haven't done any harm to the old directory
because you just copied it. In that case, write back and someone more
expert than I will take the baton.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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