Larry S. wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Larry S. wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Larry S. wrote:
For reasons too long to go into here, I installed SM 2.7.1 over 2.72.
After a series of problems and actions, I wound up back on 2.7.2.
However, SM seemed like it couldn't find my profile, or at least parts
of it. I fixed my home page through preferences, and bookmarks,
address
book, and the like are available, but SM insisted that I set up new
mail
and news accounts. I did so, but haven't seen the messages I had
before
so am wondering how to get the rest of my mail back.
My profile is still where it should be in the file structure, but I
can't get the mail. It doesn't show up in the mail pane, although it's
there in the file in the profile. How can I recover the information?
One unrelated question (less important)--when I open a tab, it goes
behind the existing tab, thus requiring another click to open it. That
didn't happen before. What should I do to fix this?
All help and suggestions greatly appreciated.
Larry
Larry, have a look at Tools->Switch Profiles. Do you have more than one
profile available?? If so, select the other one and see if it contains
your missing mail.
Report back.
Sadly, only one profile. Thank you for the thought, however.
Hmmm . . . Wonder if bringing in the backup copy of the oprifile would
work? (Need to rename the one that's there now, or give the "new" one a
different name?)
Larry
O.K., Larry, next step, in SeaMonkey, have a look at Edit->Mail &
Newsgroup Account Settings, select "Server Settings" on your mail
account. Note the location of your Local directory on the bottom of that
screen.
Completely close SeaMonkey.
You're using Windows so open your file manager and find the location of
your e-mail account. You have have Windows set to not display more than
two or three levels down. You need to set Windows to display all folders
and files.
Do a Windows "Find Folders and Files" looking for "inbox" (without the
quotes). Hopefully, the search will find more than one inbox without the
suffix, apart from the location you noted above.
In the Windows file manager, locate these other inbox's, change their
names to inbox2, inbox3, etc, and move them into the same location as
your inbox location above.
Now, re-start SeaMonkey and, hopefully, you will find more than one
inbox in your mail profile, with the others containing your lost mail.
Report back.
Thank you for saving me! This mostly worked (see below), but started
with a surprise. The search found 25 (yes, 25!) files/folders with
"inbox" in their name. Ten were .jpgs (inbox 1,2,etc.), 2 were in the
recycle bin, 5 were .msfs, 4 were various other file types, and one was
an empty folder. Sorted it out, and followed your advice. All well with
mail, except for "Archives" which didn't transfer. Got that sorted out
with some fiddling around in Windows Explorer.
So, finally back in the Mail business! Forgot to mention that News also
had to be started anew, but no problem there since the messages were on
the server (which I don't do with Mail, but probably should). Only
glitch was that all the Filters were gone. Fixed with busy work.
Thank you again!
Larry
Hey, we did it, together. Yip-ee!!
--
Daniel
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