On 07/08/14 06:02, HenriK wrote:
In the process of restoring the contents of a 300 gB hard drive that
failed to a new 300 gB hard drive, SM v.2.22 only partially returned
itself to operational status. Specifically, the set-up details (but not
the mail files themselves) of my six e-mail accounts got lost and SM
wants me to set up all of the e-mail accounts from scratch.
What are the names of the actual file(s) storing this e-mail account
SET-UP information?
I have an earlier (by 3 months and presumably uncorrupted) SM backup on
a CD that should contain these e-mail account set-up files from which I
can extract the specific files at issue and paste into the partially
restored SM folders. If, in fact, these set-up files from 3 months
before the old hard drive crashed are uncorrupted, I assume that pasting
them in will hopefully correct whatever it is that is now telling me to
set up all of my e-mail accounts again.
Thanks for any and all advice.
Henrik, how did you transfer the e-mail accounts from the old computer
to the new computer?? At one time, when files were burned to a CD, they
were marked as "Read Only" so when they were copied back onto a hard
drive, they kept this property ..... but SM needs to be able to write to
the files.
To check, in SeaMonkey have a look at Edit->Mail & Newsgroups Account
Settings and select "Server Settings" for your e-mail account/s and at
the bottom of that screen you should see "Local directory:". Note this
location.
Now close SeaMonkey and open your Windows Explorer (or whatever you use
to view your hard drive), and go to the location you noted above and
right click on a file (any file should do) and check out its Properties
to see if it is marked "Read Only".
If it is, go a level higher in the chain and repeat, until the files are
not showing as "Read Only". Locate the folder you just came from, Right
Click on it, select Properties, un-select "Read Only" and select to
apply this recursively.
(It's been a while since I've had to do this, so I hope my memory is
still right!! :-( )
If the files are not marked as "Read Only", then .... pass ... I don't know!
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Daniel
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