Daniel wrote:
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!
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn't do the trick. What may
have happened is that more got screwed up than I had realized. Let me try to
explain.
My operating system and a few utility files are located on my c:\ drive which is
physically located on a 40 gB drive (drive 0 in my SCSI chain) that is used for
nothing else. That drive didn't fail. All of my application files, including
Seamonkey and all of my mail files, were located on a physically different 300
gB drive (drive 1 in my SCSI chain and partitioned as drives d:\, e:\, f:\, g:\,
and h:\). This drive (drive 1) failed and is the one I am trying to fully
restore. My notion was that if I restored the material on the failed 300 gB
drive to a new 300 gB drive, identically partitioned to the failed drive,
everything would return to normal.
All of the applications (Microsoft Office, Word Perfect Office, and a host of
others) are now restored on the new 300 gB drive work perfectly EXCEPT for
Seamonkey. I am also aware that all applications that are not physically stored
in one's c:\ partition always write a small bit of information in the partition
containing one's operating system, i.e., my c:\ partition on drive 0.
As I have never had my Seamonkey profile and e-mail files in my c:\ partition, I
wonder if something got changed in some file(s) that tell Seamonkey where things
are located. Again, my notion was that if SCSI drive 1 was restored identically
to the failed SCSI drive 1, everything would be OK.
Because I have six e-mail accounts holding very large e-mail files, I am
reluctant to recreate them from scratch (as Seamonkey now wants me to do).
Besides, these files are all back in their usual place on new SCSI drive 1. It
is just that Seamonkey, for some unknown reason, can't find them.
Do you (or anyone else) remember where the instructions are for Seamonkey custom
installations (where Seamonkey is installed in a drive partition other than the
usual c:\ partition) are located? Perhaps if I refresh my memory on these
procedures I can sort out what has gone wrong.
Anyway, my thanks - in advance, to anyone who has any guidance on the problem I
am working around. By the way, the PC I am sending these thoughts from is a
back-up machine and not the one I am trying to put back in service.
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