Richard Owlett wrote:
My primary machine is a laptop using SM 2.26.1 on WinXP Pro SP3. My secondary machine is a desktop using SM 2.5 on WinXP Pro SP3.My laptop had to go into shop to replace intermittent fan. When I bought the laptop I had simply copied the profiles from the desktop to the laptop. The laptop's SM had been updated a couple of times ending as 2.26.1 . I copied the profiles from the SM 2.26.1 machine to the SM 2.5 machine > likely not the best idea ;< Some where in the copy sequence some data was corrupted - observable symptoms were one mail sub-folder's name was corrupted and at least on email was threaded wrong. The laptop repair took longer than predicted - now have >1000 emails to xfr to laptop. My proposed recovery scheme is: 1. local backups of profiles on both desktop and laptop 2. on desktop create sub-folder of "Local Folders" titled "Recent Mail" 3. search top level account (and sub-folders) based on age 4. copy found emails to Local Folders -> Recent Mail 5. Exit SM 6. copy ../Recent Mail to USB stick 7. copy above file to laptop profile 8. Start SM on laptop 9. mark all mails now in Local Folders -> Recent Mail as not read 10. copy (NOT move) all mail from Local Folders -> Recent Mail to appropriate top level folder 11. use existing filters to move this "new" mail to appropriate sub folder Have I covered all bases? Any comments? TIA
Empty trash if any, and be sure to compact the folders. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
