Lori wrote:
Can I, using a USB A-A, safely transfer all the email from my desktop to
my laptop, so I can do cleanup when I'm not at my desk, and then return
the remainder for archiving?
Or must I archive first, and then do a transfer, because Norton's does
not back up SeaMonkey?
You can, although I'm not sure I would do a temporary transfer like that.
One question -- are you using POP or IMAP? If you're using IMAP, a
transfer like that isn't really necessary, because all your mail is on
the server, and any IMAP setup that connects will see the same mailbox,
including all your folders. One of the differences between POP and IMAP
is that POP sees only the inbox. Thus, in an IMAP setup (including
working from a webmail client), anything that gets moved out of the
inbox is not visible to a POP connection.
If you're using POP, you may want to consider shifting to IMAP, because
it will make this kind of cleanup, where you're making access from
multiple computers, much easier.
( Personally, I use a hybridized setup. I like POP, in that it allows me
to use my main profile as my permanent repository of all mail, and that
I have it all stored locally, and not on the server. However, I work
from multiple profiles (Seamonkey on my working machine, Thunderbird on
my working machine, as well as Thunderbird on alternate machines and web
mail and cell phone). For my primary setup, I have adjusted the POP
profile so that downloaded mail is left on the server for two weeks. )
(Apart from my primary profile, I use IMAP for everything, and with the
POP connecting leaving mail on the server, all the IMAP connections have
the last two weeks of inbound mail, which is usually sufficient, most of
the time. On some of those, I explicitly set the mail client to store
sent messages in the Inbox, so that they'll be downloaded the next time
I make my normal POP connection, and I can put those in my normal filing
system. For profiles that I haven't do that, I have to remember to Bcc:
myself. But I digress...)
If you're currently using POP and you want to use IMAP, the thing to do
is to create an IMAP connection to your server. It's been a long time
since I've tried this, but I seem to remember (and I could be wrong)
that Seamonkey won't allow you to have both a POP and IMAP connection to
the same server in the same profile. If you can create an IMAP
connection, then once it's there, all you have to do is to move all your
message content into the folder structure in the IMAP connection. If
you can't do both POP and IMAP simultaneously, then what you would want
to do is to move all your mail content into Local Folders. When that's
done, delete the POP connection, create the IMAP connection, and then
move all your data from Local Folders to the IMAP connection.
As soon as you've moved your data into the IMAP connection, then all
your message data (including folder structure) is available to any IMAP
connection.
If you want to shift POP data from one profile to another (including
across machines), it's not difficult to do, but it takes working at
file/folder level, and working around the setting of hidden folders.
In Windows, Seamonkey data is stored in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey. The
AppData folder in your Windows user profile is normally hidden, so you
can't browse to it with the Windows Explorer, unless you either mark the
AppData folder as not hidden, or you explicitly enter the folder name in
the address bar (using either the environment variable construct that
I've noted here, or the exact path).
As an aside, it's not that your backup tool can't backup Seamonkey, it's
just that that's in hidden folder means that it won't be included in
backups unless you back up your entire Windows user profile (i.e.,
C:\Users\[yourname]\ ) or you explicitly request the Seamonkey folder,
as noted here.
If you really want to transfer POP data from one computer to another,
then cull messages, then transfer the data back to the original
computer, it is possible. The way to go about doing that:
1) Before you do any moving of data, make sure you have good backups of
your profile on both machines. That means getting a full copy of your
Seamonkey data, the contents of %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey\ .
2) When you're touching data in your profile outside of Seamonkey, make
sure that Seamonkey is shut down.
3) For working on your message store, you don't need the full profile.
Assuming POP, you need only the Mail subfolder. Thus, the copy you would
want to make is taking the contents of
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles\[salt].default\Profile\Mail,
copying to the same (relative) location on the second machine.
In this notation, [salt] is a random string of 8 characters that's part
of the name of the profile folder. If you have Seamonkey installed on
two different machines, then the value of [salt] will be unique on each
computer.
Also related is the Profiles.ini file in the Seamonkey\Profiles folder.
That one is how Seamonkey knows how to find specific profiles. If the
[salt] value is different between the two computers, you don't want to
simply copy the entire profile from one machine to the other, unless you
update the profiles.ini file on the second machine, to be able to find
the profile with the [salt] value from the first machine.
For copying, your better approach is either to go one level higher
(copying the entire Profiles folder, including the profile.ini file, and
overwriting all the profile data on the second machine), or one level
lower, of copying just the Mail folder, so that you don't have conflicts
from folders whose names aren't identical.
Once you've done your editing, repeat these steps to move your data back
to the first machine.
Smith
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