2009/4/8 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain > websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some > testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in > ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla > directory. This is what I have done so far: > > 1: move .mozilla to another directory using cp -av I moved it to my > data directory. > 2: delete ~/.mozilla > 3: open Seamonkey and let it recreate the new .mozilla directory. > 4: close Seamonkey > 5: copy the old Mail directory to the new ~/.mozilla directory. I made > sure it went to the right place too. You know, in the default then some > weird number thing. > 6: open Seamonkey and see if the mail is there. It's not. > > I did check to make sure the permissions were correct. I feel like > there may be another file or something that I need to copy but am missing. > > Is there a how to for this? Has someone did this recently successfully > and like to share how they did it? Could I just delete everything but > the Mail directory and that work?
This should work but you need to set up your mail account(s) again as the account settings itself are not stored in the maildir. But I guess you have done this already as seamonkey should remind you about creating a new account if it is started without an existing profile. -- Regards, Daniel
