Daniel wrote:
On 11/03/2016 2:26 AM, Cecil Bankston wrote:
Daniel wrote:
On 10/03/2016 6:04 AM, EE wrote:
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!!
If you archive messages, they are saved. The archive folder may be
corrupted, however, so backup the profile first and then see if that
folder can be repaired. If not, you may have to resort to this:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recover_messages_from_a_corrupt_folder
... and just now, as I read your response, I remembered that all my
posts (such as this) to news groups are saved in folders, so maybe it is
these that the OP was having problems with.
Still, Cecil has responded that his system seems to be working properly
today!!
I suspect the problem was not corruption of the folder but only an
extremely slow process of copying the news message to the archive
sub-folder. I generally drag messages from the inbox list to the
appropriate archive sub-folder. The process is instant for mail
messages but apparently prolonged for news messages. I think in the
past I have archived news messages without that excessive delay. Would
a copy/paste operation perhaps work better than dragging the message?
Cecil, have you tried a File->Compact Folder? When you move a file from
one folder to another folder (in SeaMonkey), it is not actually moved
but copied, so the file also remains in the original folder, just hidden
from view. When you File->Compact Folder, all these hidden bits are
removed, so reducing the size of the file, making it easier when next
you have to move stuff.
File->Compact Folder is most effective if you have done a File->Empty
Trash before hand as well.
I just tried the Copy to function from the context menu for the
newsgroup message, and it worked perfectly. I suppose the lesson is not
to try using drag and drop for news messages. The archive folder, which
now displays its contents normally, was not affected by compacting, as I
had not deleted any messages from the folder.
--
C. Bankston
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