On 01/17/2013 01:45 PM, HenriK wrote: > On both my and my wife's PCs, we have used SeaMonkey since it first > became available. On my wife's PC, running XP-Home, fully updated, > SeaMonkey 2.15 automatically installed itself a day or so ago. The > latest Java update also installed itself the same day. > > When the machine was booted this morning, the e-mail menu and icons that > used to come up were missing and SeaMonkey called for a new e-mail > account to be set up. Other than the missing e-mail menus, everything > else in SeaMonkey seems to be working properly. This situation reminds > me of a previous SeaMonkey upgrade where the bookmarks files went missing. > > As I go back to the MS-DOS days, I looked at the hard drive file > structure and it looks like both the e-mail and bookmarks files are, in > fact, still sitting on the hard drive in their proper positions. > > 1) Can someone explain to me in simple language what may have gone wrong? > > 2) Can some kind soul tell me in a step-by-step 'fix it for dummies' > style how to get the e-mail working again?
Check your C:\Documents and Settings\gg\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey profiles.ini file. That file tells SM which profile to use on startup. Example: [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/xyz.default Within the C:\Documents and Settings\x\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xyz.default is the prefs.js file. That file tells SM where your email/news/etc files are located. Check to see if you have a backup of that file. If not, you can edit with Wordpad or similar to point to xyz.default. The alternative is to create a new profile, then in Edit|Mail and News...|emailaccount|Server Settings|Local directory: and point that to: C:\Documents and Settings\x\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xyz.default\Mail\pop.xyz (if pop account) Do the same for News etc. This is the same as if you were to move the files to a different system & need to use the same mail folders etc. You can do a mass find & replace in prefs.js to point to the new location/profile. > > 3) Ditto for restoring the bookmarks files. Thanks to Rob in my 'SM 2.15 (linux) bookmarks missing' thread: "Just remove places.sqlite* and it will be imported from your last backup or from whatever source you manually import it." > > Thanks, in advance, for any and all assistance. > Good luck. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
