On 17/11/2014 22:09, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > [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.
I think there is UI to delete/recreate the msf file: Right click on the folder, choose Properties Then "Repair Folder" Works for IMAP and newsgroups, probably POP too. Regards. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
