On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 > > > Elwyn York disseminated the following: > > > > > > As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which > > > during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by > > > default AFAIK. This should go for most if not all of your > > > 'data', depending on how you have your disk partitioned. > > > > This is true if /home is its own partition, but what if it's on > > the same partition as /? Will it not get wiped on a new install? > > In that case, the whole /home directory, including mail and any saved work, > will be wiped out. You really do need a backup of your work and mail before > you install. I'm not sure where sylpheed-claws stores your mail, but if you > can't find it I'm sure someone will point you to it. > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels home/yourhome/Mail. AND home/yourhome/.sylpheed or home/yourhome/.sylpheed-gtk2 also needed depending on your vers. Lee
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