Re: [newbie] netscape files
Bill, I looked but didn't touch through the dos icon in my kde desktop and you seem to be right . Windows can be backed up that way too. I am most interested if my napster files can be imported. I don't see why not and am thrilled! Thanks. =michael=
Re: [newbie] netscape files
You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition to be read and written by both win and linux, plus permissions changed on the win partition to allow nsmail to write. Possibly not worth it unless you are still using win a lot. Bill bascule wrote: i will try this thankyou, does this mean that i can have a shared directory for win and linux netscape? perhaps only for subfolders where mail is filtred to? bascule Bill Gerber wrote: Sorry, I missed this thread before. You CAN copy your windows netscape mail files across to your linux /nsmail directory. It's a simple copy/paste, any filename clashes can be renamed in the process, and they will show as new subfolders next time you open the mail window. I have just done this. Bill. bascule wrote: thanks for your replies, i have discovered that i could indeed export my address book in the ldif format and import it into linux netscape, also i copied my bookmark.htm file from win98 over to linux and copied it over bookmarks.html in my user .netscape directory (backing up the old one of course) this worked fine, messages had to be downloaded all over again however bascule J Walker wrote: I believe you could save your address book, too. If not by copying the file itself, try exporting/importing it. (I myself transferred from MS Outlook to Netscape-Linux with the help of Yahoo! address backup service, a much longer route - and it worked) Cheers, /J. Em qua, 24 mai 2000, bascule escreveu: ah well! thanks eric, at least i won't be wasting time trying to do the impossible bascule Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: NO !!! But you can try to copy your bookmarks files from netscape/win to your linux-netscape. Backup your linux bookmarks before !!! Eric bascule wrote: does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer bookmarks folders etc.? the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my netscape directory in my user home directory bascule -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you) -- * Registered Linux User Number * *178234*
Re: [newbie] netscape files
You mean you can actually share your mailboxes across Windows and Linux? How 'd you do? I share the address books, and i works all right. If I could share the mailboxes, it 'd find it useful. You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition to be read and written by both win and linux, plus permissions changed on the win partition to allow nsmail to write. Possibly not worth it unless you are still using win a lot. Bill bascule wrote: i will try this thankyou, does this mean that i can have a shared directory for win and linux netscape? perhaps only for subfolders where mail is filtred to? bascule Bill Gerber wrote: Sorry, I missed this thread before. You CAN copy your windows netscape mail files across to your linux /nsmail directory. It's a simple copy/paste, any filename clashes can be renamed in the process, and they will show as new subfolders next time you open the mail window. I have just done this. Bill. bascule wrote: thanks for your replies, i have discovered that i could indeed export my address book in the ldif format and import it into linux netscape, also i copied my bookmark.htm file from win98 over to linux and copied it over bookmarks.html in my user .netscape directory (backing up the old one of course) this worked fine, messages had to be downloaded all over again however bascule J Walker wrote: I believe you could save your address book, too. If not by copying the file itself, try exporting/importing it. (I myself transferred from MS Outlook to Netscape-Linux with the help of Yahoo! address backup service, a much longer route - and it worked) Cheers, /J. Em qua, 24 mai 2000, bascule escreveu: ah well! thanks eric, at least i won't be wasting time trying to do the impossible bascule Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: NO !!! But you can try to copy your bookmarks files from netscape/win to your linux-netscape. Backup your linux bookmarks before !!! Eric bascule wrote: does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer bookmarks folders etc.? the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my netscape directory in my user home directory bascule -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you) -- * Registered Linux User Number * *178234*
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Bill- could you be a bit more specific? I am unclear as to how you were able to import your netscape files from windows to mandrake and would love to learn more. -michael-
Re: [newbie] netscape files
Michael wrote: Bill- could you be a bit more specific? I am unclear as to how you were able to import your netscape files from windows to mandrake and would love to learn more. -michael- OK, Firstly, I am using KDE. Click on the home folder on the panel and negotiate your way to the windows mail folder. Mine is /mnt/DOS_hda1/program files/netscape/ users/default/mail and the files are Drafts, Inbox, Sent, Templates and Unsent Messages. Not much point worrying about Trash unless you're a collector :). Select all of those (hold down Ctrl while you left-click on each file) then right-click on one of those files and click on 'copy'. Check your netscape preferences (edit...preferences...mail servers) and look at 'local mail directory' (in my case it is /home/billg/nsmail/). Now go there in kfm and right-click on a clear spot on the screen then click 'paste'. Where there are filename clashes, a warning window will open and you can change the name of the file then click on 'rename'. There was an error in my last post...you have to close netscape and reopen it for the new sub-folders to appear in the mail window. Thats it! Bill
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i will try this thankyou, does this mean that i can have a shared directory for win and linux netscape? perhaps only for subfolders where mail is filtred to? bascule Bill Gerber wrote: Sorry, I missed this thread before. You CAN copy your windows netscape mail files across to your linux /nsmail directory. It's a simple copy/paste, any filename clashes can be renamed in the process, and they will show as new subfolders next time you open the mail window. I have just done this. Bill. bascule wrote: thanks for your replies, i have discovered that i could indeed export my address book in the ldif format and import it into linux netscape, also i copied my bookmark.htm file from win98 over to linux and copied it over bookmarks.html in my user .netscape directory (backing up the old one of course) this worked fine, messages had to be downloaded all over again however bascule J Walker wrote: I believe you could save your address book, too. If not by copying the file itself, try exporting/importing it. (I myself transferred from MS Outlook to Netscape-Linux with the help of Yahoo! address backup service, a much longer route - and it worked) Cheers, /J. Em qua, 24 mai 2000, bascule escreveu: ah well! thanks eric, at least i won't be wasting time trying to do the impossible bascule Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: NO !!! But you can try to copy your bookmarks files from netscape/win to your linux-netscape. Backup your linux bookmarks before !!! Eric bascule wrote: does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer bookmarks folders etc.? the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my netscape directory in my user home directory bascule -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you) -- * Registered Linux User Number * *178234*
Re: [newbie] netscape files
Sorry, I missed this thread before. You CAN copy your windows netscape mail files across to your linux /nsmail directory. It's a simple copy/paste, any filename clashes can be renamed in the process, and they will show as new subfolders next time you open the mail window. I have just done this. Bill. bascule wrote: thanks for your replies, i have discovered that i could indeed export my address book in the ldif format and import it into linux netscape, also i copied my bookmark.htm file from win98 over to linux and copied it over bookmarks.html in my user .netscape directory (backing up the old one of course) this worked fine, messages had to be downloaded all over again however bascule J Walker wrote: I believe you could save your address book, too. If not by copying the file itself, try exporting/importing it. (I myself transferred from MS Outlook to Netscape-Linux with the help of Yahoo! address backup service, a much longer route - and it worked) Cheers, /J. Em qua, 24 mai 2000, bascule escreveu: ah well! thanks eric, at least i won't be wasting time trying to do the impossible bascule Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: NO !!! But you can try to copy your bookmarks files from netscape/win to your linux-netscape. Backup your linux bookmarks before !!! Eric bascule wrote: does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer bookmarks folders etc.? the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my netscape directory in my user home directory bascule -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you) -- * Registered Linux User Number * *178234*
Re: [newbie] netscape files
thanks for your replies, i have discovered that i could indeed export my address book in the ldif format and import it into linux netscape, also i copied my bookmark.htm file from win98 over to linux and copied it over bookmarks.html in my user .netscape directory (backing up the old one of course) this worked fine, messages had to be downloaded all over again however bascule J Walker wrote: I believe you could save your address book, too. If not by copying the file itself, try exporting/importing it. (I myself transferred from MS Outlook to Netscape-Linux with the help of Yahoo! address backup service, a much longer route - and it worked) Cheers, /J. Em qua, 24 mai 2000, bascule escreveu: ah well! thanks eric, at least i won't be wasting time trying to do the impossible bascule Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: NO !!! But you can try to copy your bookmarks files from netscape/win to your linux-netscape. Backup your linux bookmarks before !!! Eric bascule wrote: does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer bookmarks folders etc.? the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my netscape directory in my user home directory bascule -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you) -- * Registered Linux User Number * *178234*
[newbie] netscape files
does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer bookmarks folders etc.? the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my netscape directory in my user home directory bascule
Re: [newbie] Netscape files
kiriakos wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible in a dual boot system (linux, win98) to have Netscape for Linux share the user files with Netscape for windows, in a way of telling the linux version to look for the user directory in /mnt/dos/.../Netscape user folder, effectively sharing mail, bookmarks, browser settings, and cache content between OS's. Is this possible? I haven't noticed any customizable user folder setting in Netscape for windows, but is there such a thing in Netscape for Linux? Or some other way to do it? Thanks in advance, GG I don't think so: I was using netscape for mail in both and the windows version understands the linux mail files but not the other way around. It would try and then it would lose messages. As for the cache sharing, look at the way each is handled, to me the look totally dissimilar. Bookmarks on the other hand will probably work fine. Make a backup copy of bookmarks.htm and try linking the linux one. It might work...
Re: [newbie] Netscape files
Actually I was going to try that. I have all my windows-netscape mail files archived and was going to try and import them into linux-netscape...what about deleting the .lock or .summary files and copying my old windows-netscape mail files into the .nsmail directory. When you start up Netscape messenger in linux, it will recreate those .summary files and hopefully work...haven't tried it yet though..sound plausible? Valjean I don't think so: I was using netscape for mail in both and the windows version understands the linux mail files but not the other way around. It would try and then it would lose messages. As for the cache sharing, look at the way each is handled, to me the look totally dissimilar. Bookmarks on the other hand will probably work fine. Make a backup copy of bookmarks.htm and try linking the linux one. It might work...
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last year I tryed out and it didn't work for me. Naothing at all, nor the bookmarks ! Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 11:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape files kiriakos wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible in a dual boot system (linux, win98) to have Netscape for Linux share the user files with Netscape for windows, in a way of telling the linux version to look for the user directory in /mnt/dos/.../Netscape user folder, effectively sharing mail, bookmarks, browser settings, and cache content between OS's. Is this possible? I haven't noticed any customizable user folder setting in Netscape for windows, but is there such a thing in Netscape for Linux? Or some other way to do it? Thanks in advance, GG I don't think so: I was using netscape for mail in both and the windows version understands the linux mail files but not the other way around. It would try and then it would lose messages. As for the cache sharing, look at the way each is handled, to me the look totally dissimilar. Bookmarks on the other hand will probably work fine. Make a backup copy of bookmarks.htm and try linking the linux one. It might work...
RE: [newbie] Netscape files
NO NO NO NO Eric -Original Message- From: kiriakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Netscape files Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible in a dual boot system (linux, win98) to have Netscape for Linux share the user files with Netscape for windows, in a way of telling the linux version to look for the user directory in /mnt/dos/.../Netscape user folder, effectively sharing mail, bookmarks, browser settings, and cache content between OS's. Is this possible? I haven't noticed any customizable user folder setting in Netscape for windows, but is there such a thing in Netscape for Linux? Or some other way to do it? Thanks in advance, GG
[newbie] Netscape files
Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible in a dual boot system (linux, win98) to have Netscape for Linux share the user files with Netscape for windows, in a way of telling the linux version to look for the user directory in /mnt/dos/.../Netscape user folder, effectively sharing mail, bookmarks, browser settings, and cache content between OS's. Is this possible? I haven't noticed any customizable user folder setting in Netscape for windows, but is there such a thing in Netscape for Linux? Or some other way to do it? Thanks in advance, GG
Re: [newbie] Netscape files
Well, I guess you could try it. You'll probally have to make sure all users have write/read access to mounted partitions, so make sure "umask=0" is located in the options section of /etc/fstab. That will let anyone write to that mounted partition. Once you get that done, you might be able to link ~/.netscape to your Windows netscape folder. I'm not sure exacty how, as I've never really linked stuff before, but try "man ln" for more info. But again, I'm not sure if it'll work or not (I'm just throwing out ideas) and someone else may have a better, simpler way, or say my idea is wrong. But hey, this is why I love Linux, the thrill of experimentation and trying to hack the system to get it to work :) Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible in a dual boot system (linux, win98) to have Netscape for Linux share the user files with Netscape for windows, in a way of telling the linux version to look for the user directory in /mnt/dos/.../Netscape user folder, effectively sharing mail, bookmarks, browser settings, and cache content between OS's. Is this possible? I haven't noticed any customizable user folder setting in Netscape for windows, but is there such a thing in Netscape for Linux? Or some other way to do it? Thanks in advance, GG -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
[newbie] Netscape Files
Can anyone tell me which files in Netscape contain the "Personal Bookmarks"and the "Address Book?"I found "bookmark.html" it had everything except the "personal" ones. I justwant to back them up so as not to have to go through the *big* hassle ofredoing them if/when I have to do a reinstall! TIA!John PS--Sorry, I posted this to "expert" accidentally!
