Smiles wrote:
I backup my computer users Dir daily but had a mishap when updating my
SeaMonkey from 2.26 to 2.9 i only keep two weeks of backup and one from
2 months this ile has the same structure when used just has less mail
I have lost years of email
but do not see thins in my backups
when i went back to 2.26 i lost my sub-folders in four folders plus the
sent folder
how are sub-folders stored
i do not understand were i failed on my backup
Best practice is to back up the entire Mozilla folder, not to pick and
choose certain files or folders. Better to have more than you need than
to have less than you need.
As for the file structure:
1) What you see inside SM as a folder that has no subfolders (e.g.,
"Inbox," which has no subfolders on my system) looks like this:
C:\Users\Your Windows User
Name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Mail\Account
Name\Inbox
where "xxxxxxxx" is a random eight-character alphanumeric string that
varies from installation to installation and "Account Name" is some
distinctive string that allows SM (and you) to recognize which account
you're dealing with.
(This is for a Windows 7 system; the path above \Mozilla\
will be somewhat different on other operating systems.)
So in Windows Explorer, "Inbox" is just a plain file, with no
three-letter extension, and not a Windows folder even though it
functions as a folder inside SM. There will also be a file "Inbox.msf,"
but it's not important to back it up; it's just an index file.
2) What you see inside SM as a folder that does have subfolders (let's
use "Sent" as an example) looks like this:
C:\Users\Your Windows User
Name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Mail\Account
Name\Sent.sbd\
where "Sent" is the folder name you see in SeaMonkey and "\Sent.sbd\" is
a folder in Windows Explorer. There will also be a corresponding index
file "Sent.msf" (not a folder), and again it's not important to back
that up.
Under the \Sent.sbd\ folder in Windows Explorer, you'll see the names of
any subfolders it contains (let's say, "2012" and "2013"), with the same
organization and names as the ones you see in SM. If those have
subfolders, they'll have the .sbd extension, but if not, they'll have no
extension.
Thus, the Windows Explorer files for our example look like this:
...\Index
...\Index.msf
...\Sent.sbd\
...\Sent.msf
...\Sent.sbd\2013
...\Sent.sbd\2013.msf
...\Sent.sbd\2012
...\Sent.sbd\2012.msf
Or in tree format:
...\Index
...\Index.msf
...\Sent.msf
...\Sent.sbd\
└─2012
└─2012.msf
└─2013
└─2013.msf
HTH
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Paul B. Gallagher
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