NFN Smith wrote:
Henrik37 wrote:
On a 64 bit Dell Optiplex running 64 bit Win 7 Pro, I presently have
SM 2.49.4 installed. I am not certain whether existing SM mail is 32
bit or 64 bit as it has been in use for several years.
I want to change the company providing the mail service and change the
name of the mailbox. In the process, however, I want to keep all of
the existing inbox and sent mail files.
Can I simply copy the old inbox and sent mail files and paste these
two files into a new mail account I establish with the new mail provider?
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What I suggest starting with the structure of Seamonkey (current version
and 64 bit) before you start tinkering with data, especially server
settings. I also think you can get to what you need from Seamonkey
without digging in files and folders within your profile, other than
making backups.
1) Get a backup of your current profile. In Windows use the Explorer to
go to to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey and copy the entire contents
somewhere else. That way, if there's problems, you still have all your
data that you can restore. Make sure that Seamonkey isn't open when you
do this.
2) Upgrade to a 64-bit install of 2.53.1 As Don Spam noted, chances are
high that you're running a 32-bit version of Seamonkey. 64-bit hasn't
been available as a supported version before the recent release of
2.53.1, a few weeks ago, and the only way of updating Seamonkey is to
download and install.
It's fine to move to a 64-bit version, but before you do that, you want
to uninstall your existing 32-bit version, first. Be aware also that
once your profile has been touched by 2.53.1, you can't downgrade to a
previous version, unless you also copy in your backups. That's
something that's been imposed by Firefox, that profiles are no longer
backward-compatible.
Make sure that everything is working correctly before going further than
this.
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Smith
2.49.5 is available as a 64-bit version, it is also backwards compatible
with 2.49.4 (apart from some issues with the Lightning Calendar add-on).
I'm not sure if that information is useful or not, I agree with the rest
of your post ;-)
--
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