Mason83 wrote on 11/18/2014 2:58 PM:
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.
There is that indeed. However, I recently have had an issue with
messages being displayed incorrectly. Hard to depict. I click on a
message in a folder and the content displayed is of a message in a
folder above the one I'm in. If I do the Repair Folder that fixes it.
But when I then drill down through other folders it keeps happening.
Finally, I closed SeaMonkey, did a search for *.msf, and deleted every
msf file found. Restarted and all seems to be okay now. Weird.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
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