On 18/11/2014 7:40 AM, [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?
Just FYI, when SM talks about compacting files, it's not like what might
happen in backing up your data.
In SM, say you receive five e-mails, one, two, three, four and five.
Maybe three is spam, so you delete it. Maybe two is from your daughter,
so you move it into the "Family" folder. And maybe Five is from your
Boss, so you move it into the "Work" folder.
Your Inbox still contains all five messages, just it will only show you
two, messages One and Four. The other three are still in your Inbox
file, just a bit has been changed in each deleted/moved messages header
information to make it invisible. After some time, there can be quite a
bit of disk space unused in the inbox. To reclaim this space,
File->Empty Trash then File->Compact Folders.
If you are worried about losing e-mail, before you do as I suggest
above, close SeaMonkey and copy your Inbox to somewhere else on your HD.
To sort out your misaligned Subjects and messages, try closing SM and
deleting your inbox.msf file ( *not the inbox (without the suffix) file*
as it contains your e-mails). When you re-start SM and select your
inbox, and a new .msf file will be created.
HTH
--
Daniel
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