andré wrote:
andré a écrit :
whispertread a écrit :
Here's a strange one. I changed my Broadband ISP from o2.co.uk to
Virginmedia.com
Now I have a new default email account in my Sea Monkey Mail. I saved
any of the old mail out to a backup drive, then deleted all mail from
all folders. Then I
it contained nothing in the Inbox Sent folders etc.
closed that redundant account by removing it in the normal way, so no
more "settings" exist for it.
Now there is left over, a dead account that won't delete from the
listed accounts in the left side window.
I can rename it, so have called it "Silly Account Wont Delete" but it
refuses to be cleared away. It sits there at the bottom of my
accounts list with completely empty folders for Inbox Outbox Sent
Drafts Trash and there's no command that will allow me to take it out
of the list. Anyone got any idea where it is hiding so I can get it
out of my Sea Monkey Face? !
It's not causing any harm or slowing anything down, just frustrating
that normal operations won't get rid of it completely.
(My SM is in french, so the names I give could be approximate.)
You can find the location of the folder for your account at
menu: edit / account parameters / "Silly Account Wont Delete" (or
whatever it is called now) / server parametres tab
(Correcting for english menu names given by Daniel. Use this method if
you have already tried Daniel's suggestion, which is the normal way of
deleting an email account.)
Mail_and_newsgroups menu: edit / mail_and_newsgroups_settings /
account_you_want_to_delete / server_parametres (second tab)
The "local directory" field at the bottom of the page has the location
of the account folder.
If it is in the default location, its' parent directory contains the
file "profiles.ini", which shows the location of each account.
These 2 points apply to any standard version of Seamonkey, whatever the
platform.
I suspect that the account doesn't delete because the account folder is
write protected, or alternately, there is an anti-virus function active
on your computer that is recreating the folder each time you delete it.
(I ran into that problem when I used to use msw. One of the incentives
to switch to Linux.)
hope that helps
Thanks - in hope :-))
That is a very old issue Seamonkey, and Mozilla, and Communicator use
to do that all the time. It is or was in a Pain in the ass to fix. I
thought SeaMonkey fixed that 10 years ago. Best I can remember you had
to first delete the reference in Edit mail and newsgroups then
immediately go in Mail or news and and delete all references you can
locate them in profile folder move to the trash and empty. Then Restart
computer. Before opening. Some time wouldn't do any good and you'd have
to try 5 or 6 times before it finally took. Then out of the blue a month
or two it would start up again. Maybe it was a Full moon.
I hope we haven't started that mess again.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:[email protected]
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