SameulS wrote:
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SameulS wrote:
SameulS wrote:
Hello all, this happened with a previous profile and I made a new
profile, I keep getting popstate files showing below most of email
accounts in one particular profile.
I thought that was normal, and as far as I know I've had them in my
profile for years.
What causes this and how to prevent going forward? This occurred after
my upgrade to 2.35 from 2.33.1.
According to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey
popstate.dat - in the Mail folder : Keeps track of which messages have
been downloaded and left on the POP3 server
Perhaps they're only created if the account is set to leave messages on
the server.
Should I revert? Is this possibly a bug? My machine is Win 8.1 Pro.
Are they causing some problem for you?
I find that reverting back to 2.33.1 has not helped either. As well,
duplicate download of emails are starting again....
If those files keep track of which files have been downloaded, and
you're deleting them, I wouldn't have thought that's surprising.
Mark.
Mark,
Thank you for your response. This is one of the few times I have had
popstate files appear as part of my email as a folder.
You mean they're appearing as mail folders within the Mail & News
application? That is odd; I assumed you'd just noticed them appearing in
the profile folder on disk... At a guess, it sounds like SeaMonkey is no
longer treating popstate.dat as a special file for some reason, and
treating it as just another mail file within the profile.
Before going any further, back up your profile if you haven't already
done so. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey shows
where to find the profile folder on disk.
First thing I'd try is starting with add-ons disabled (Help > Restart
with Add-ons Disabled) just in case one of them is interfering with
this. If the popstate files don't show up and you don't get duplicates
downloaded, the task then is to find out which add-on is causing it.
If you look in the profile, there is a Mail folder, within that a folder
for each account, and within that are a couple of files for each mail
folder (the one with no extension contains the mail, and the .msf file
is an index). There's also a popstate.dat file, and it sounds like
that's now being treated as another mail folder rather than POP state
data. Perhaps it's become corrupted somehow.
Trying with just one account for now (one of the less busy or less
critical ones if possible), close SeaMonkey, delete the popstate.dat
file, and restart SeaMonkey Mail&News. You'll probably get duplicate
emails downloaded this time, since the popstate.dat file has been
deleted. Hopefully the popstate folder won't show up as a mail folder
though, and you won't get duplicates in future.
If that works, you're no longer getting duplicates from that account and
there are no new problems, go ahead and do the same to other accounts.
If it makes things worse, close SeaMonkey, backup the profile again and
restore from backup you created at the start.
I now have over 250 of these files showing up when I open SM 2.33.1, not
to mention the number of duplicate emails being dl'd into SM.
You mentioned that you'd upgraded from 2.33.1 to 2.35. Are you now
running 2.33.1 again? Sometimes newer versions make changes to the
profile which aren't compatible with older versions. Does 2.35 work OK
with that profile, or was the same happening in 2.35?
I'm curious as to how you've got over 250 popstate files? Do you have
over 250 accounts? Or is there one under every folder within each
account? Or several in the root folder of each account?
How often do you get duplicates downloaded? Once each session, or every
time you check for new mail? Do you get duplicates of all mail on the
server every time this happens, or only some messages?
I Am now getting frustrated with this behaviour and really want to
figure out the challenge,
I can understand that. A few weeks ago one of my accounts downloaded
duplicates of all my mail, but that was a one-off and I suspect it was
the server's fault (comparing popstate.dat from backups it looks like
the IDs of all messages have changed, making SeaMonkey think it was all
new). I certainly wouldn't want that to keep happening!
is it SM or something else causing this?
TIA - bo1953
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