On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:58:26 -0500, jean-pierre bessette wrote in message <news:mailman.5219.1356814733.32706.support-seamon...@lists.mozilla.org>:
> Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted > to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the message was in > the hope that it would stop asking me the question. > > Instead it seemed to compact almost constantly, causing a 'fluttering' > of the script on my emails and making them almost unreadable. So I > looked for a way to reverse what I had done and made a bit mistake. As > I searched through the '\help' options I came across one that offered " > Restart with add-ons disabled" > > When I clicked on yes, the program reverted to a new installation, and I > lost all emails, including all those that I had saved for the previous 6 > months since I had bought this computer. Unfortunately I could not find > a way to reverse what I had just done. > I have just switched over to Thunderbird, and all the current email > lists have imported completely. > > Does anyone have any idea how I might retrieve those lost emails in Sea > Monkey - personal ones with photos are the ones I would like to retrieve > - or are they gone completely? SeaMonkey stores its e-mail messages in .msf files. You can do a search for those and open them with Notepad. However, I think it's unlikely that attachments such as photos are still there, if you hadn't saved them separately. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
