Ray Davison wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Ray Davison wrote:
Gita Diem wrote:
Now I have lost all emails, address book etc. How can I
retrieve this?
Search for "INBOX".
Not a complete set of directions. Better refer to Trane Francks'
reply in this thread.
If you insist on "automatic upgrades",
... I don't, and that's not what the OP described...
you just might get a new profile, and that may or may not have
destroyed the previous profile.
The most likely scenario here is that SM 2.21 didn't recognize and
import the old SM 1.13 profile. Since they are stored in different
locations, it's highly UNlikely that the old profile was affected at all.
If you are looking for "lost" mail search for the file "INBOX". You
could search for any file in the mail sub-directory, but that one is
easy to remember and is rather unique.
True. But having found it, what is the OP supposed to do? You didn't say.
Here are some things that may [a]ffect your philosophy regarding
Mozilla.
With Mozilla products you never need to "kill" or "deinstall"
anything. You can have as many versions of the apps and profiles as
you have room on the HDD; and use each of them as you chose.
True in principle. But do I want my email history scattered over
half-a-dozen profiles? I think not. One of the features of SM I really
like is that everything I've ever sent or received since the late 1990s
is in one place. Intact.
On this machine I currently have a total of twelve SM/TB/FF profiles,
and a total of fifteen SM/TB/FF apps, counting both OS/2 and Win
versions. OS/2 and Win use the same profile files. I once had
twenty SM when I was looking for the date/time of a bug creation.
I never "upgrade" a Mozilla app. That destroys the previous and you
might not want or be able to use the new one. The new version gets
a new tree, and I only delete the older when I decide I don't want it
any more.
That's fine if you're a beta tester. If you live out here in the real
world, not so much.
If you're advising users to be really careful protecting their files,
then you might advise them to import their old profiles to a new
location when installing the new version, and having successfully tested
them, discard the old ones. But that's a lot more trouble than most
people want to go to. A much simpler way to go is to shut SM down before
a backup, run the backup, upgrade SM, and see if it worked. If all is
well, no problem. If there's a problem, restore the profile from the
backup and again no problem. At most, you lose a couple of emails that
came or went during testing. The key is to have a backup, which is good
computing practice anyway.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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