[email protected] wrote:
Recently, I noticed when I click on a msg in any of my folders the
body is neither of the same date as shown in the listing, nor is the
content what the subject is about as shown in the listing. As a
matter of fact, I can't really find any msg received or sent because
the subjects and dates in the listing are not the subjects or dates
of the actual msg. I suspect there is is something wrong with the
compacting/decompacting algorithm.
Does anyone know how to recover my email folders?
As far as compacting is concerned, what's done is done. The only way to
recover the previous state is if you can restore from a backup. One of
the first lessons I learned about computing, back in 1985, was "if you
love me, back me up."
But you may have some luck if you find your profile folder and (with
SeaMonkey closed) delete all the *.msf files. These are index files (the
message content is stored separately) and will be rebuilt the next time
you start SeaMonkey. They sometimes get corrupted and produce strange
results like yours.
Example:
My folder on Windows 7,
C:\Users\MyWindowsUserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Mail\mail.mydomainname.com\,
contains the files Inbox (which holds the messages) and Inbox.msf (which
holds the index for Inbox).
In this example, the words "MyWindowsUserName," "xxxxxxxx," and
"mail.mydomainname.com" will vary from user to user, computer to
computer, and account to account. The rest of the path may also vary
depending on your operating system.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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