Ed Mullen wrote on 11/19/2014 10:12 PM:
NFN Smith wrote on 11/19/2014 11:57 AM:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Finally, I closed SeaMonkey, did a search for *.msf, and deleted every
msf file found. Restarted and all seems to be okay now. Weird.
It's been a long time since I've seen it happen, but sometimes, index
files get corrupted, and the effect is that it appears that mail has
been lost/deleted.
If compressing the folder in question doesn't work, then deleting the
appropriate .MSF forces a complete rebuild of the index from scratch.
Although going this route is something of a "last gasp" thing, I've
never seen that not work for me.
Smith
Yep, since killing all the .msf files I haven't sen the issue. Still,
it's disconcerting to click through, say, messages in a folder called
"Bob" and see nothing but messages about "Your natural gas bill." Weird!
Which makes me think there is fundamentally something wrong with Mozilla
file handling. I mean, Microsoft handles files well. Office. Windows.
I've never had an issue with them. But all this mbox stuff? Fraught
with peril. Seems like someone decided to invent a better mousetrap and
failed.
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
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