Daniel wrote:
On 9/03/2016 9:16 AM, Cecil Bankston wrote:
I have an Archives folder under one of my mail accounts with several
sub-folders. Recently when I tried to move a message from a news inbox
to one of the sub-folders I got an endless wait icon over the
sub-folder. I now can't see the list of messages in the sub-folder as I
get the endless wait icon whenever I try to open the folder. I suppose
the failed moving of that last message somehow corrupted the folder. Is
there any way to retrieve the contents of that folder?
Cecil, if you're really desperate you should be able to open the folder
in a plain text reader (with SeaMonkey closed!!) such as Notepad or
wordpad. The file you are after is the one without the .msf suffix, e.g.
if there are a pair of files called test and test.msf, the one that
might still contain your message is the test file.
Opps!! Wait!! Just noticed that you mentioned "a news inbox"! Normally,
news articals, as I understand it, are not downloaded as such to your
computer, they are just stored in your cache, so if you are trying to
download and save a news post, you may be downloading everything from
the news server!!
Thanks for the reply. This morning the sub-folder opens normally. Even
the news message that seemed to precipitate the problem is in there.
Computers can do some strange things.
--
C. Bankston
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