Lil Sparrow wrote:
Thank you for the detailed instructions. Unfortunately the backup is
coming up as corrupted. So there is nothing more I can do.
The mails are gone for good.
Don't assume, not just yet. There are situations where SeaMonkey does
not display mail folders but they're not gone. These are problems of
recognition or display, not data loss.
Still worth checking:
On your working machine, is the old profile containing the "lost" mails
still present? You've said that SeaMonkey sees only one virgin profile
containing nothing, but can Windows Explorer still see the old profile?
Then we have to teach SM to see and use it, or at worst migrate the data
folders to your new profile as described upthread.
After setting Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders, use it
to search your disk for a folder called "Profiles." When you find it
(there must be one if you've got a default profile), see what it
contains other than a subfolder called "*.default," where the asterisk
can represent any eight characters. It's helpful to set the WE display
options to "details" rather than those useless icons, so you can see
date/time stamps, file types and sizes, etc. at a glance.
Installing/uninstalling SM should not have affected your profile, only
your program files, unless you did something foolish like reformatting
the disk.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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