Re: A very strange failure ...
On 1/24/14 12:45 PM +0900, HenriK wrote: Philip Taylor wrote: HenriK wrote: Last month, I experienced a PC malfunction on my main PC ... A delayed-write failure indicates that a serious disk error occurred, and data was/were lost. Check your Windows logs, identify the device in question, then disable delayed writes through Control Panel for that device or its controller. Use whatever tools are available to you to attempt to recover the data from that disk. Identify from the logs whether it is terminally ill, and if so, replace it, re-populating the new drive from backups. Even if it is not terminally ill, replacing it (or at least putting it into a RAID-0 configuration) would be wise. Philip Taylor Now, I am even more puzzled. The write-back caching feature was NOT enabled, and so far as I know has never been enabled, for any of the hard drives on the PC in question. By default, Windows uses write caching on all drives unless explicitly disabled. In any case, your drive would seem to be in the process of failing. I would be proactive about replacing it. -- / // Trane Franckstr...@gol.comTokyo, Japan // Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: A very strange failure ...
Philip Taylor wrote: HenriK wrote: Last month, I experienced a PC malfunction on my main PC ... A delayed-write failure indicates that a serious disk error occurred, and data was/were lost. Check your Windows logs, identify the device in question, then disable delayed writes through Control Panel for that device or its controller. Use whatever tools are available to you to attempt to recover the data from that disk. Identify from the logs whether it is terminally ill, and if so, replace it, re-populating the new drive from backups. Even if it is not terminally ill, replacing it (or at least putting it into a RAID-0 configuration) would be wise. Philip Taylor Now, I am even more puzzled. The write-back caching feature was NOT enabled, and so far as I know has never been enabled, for any of the hard drives on the PC in question. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: A very strange failure ...
Philip Taylor wrote: HenriK wrote: Last month, I experienced a PC malfunction on my main PC ... A delayed-write failure indicates that a serious disk error occurred, and data was/were lost. Check your Windows logs, identify the device in question, then disable delayed writes through Control Panel for that device or its controller. Use whatever tools are available to you to attempt to recover the data from that disk. Identify from the logs whether it is terminally ill, and if so, replace it, re-populating the new drive from backups. Even if it is not terminally ill, replacing it (or at least putting it into a RAID-0 configuration) would be wise. Good points. The files with lots of zeroes in their names are likely lost clusters recovered by CHKDSK. They're broken pieces of files, but nowadays I find myself unable, even with a plain-text editor, to recognize what they are or where they go. Oh, for the DOS days when you could patch things back together! If SeaMonkey won't start, that may well be because the disk error(s) damaged a critical file. Hard to say which one, though -- probably have to reinstall after addressing the hardware issue. If you're lucky, only the program itself was damaged and you can restore the profile. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Transfer all SM settings and mail archives to new computer
Many thanks to Wolfgang for this simple and clear advice. I have now followed it and everything seems to have transferred perfectly. --- On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 at 11:23:54 +0100, Wolfgang Steger wrote: John E wrote: [Description about profile deleted] - there should be no difference where the seamonkey binary is installed. - make sure seamonkey is closed on both machines (for your accounts). - just transfer $HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini and the profile (the .default) AS IS, DO NOT RENAME, as the value of is inside profiles.ini. You can delete the current .default. - I assume that all your mail data is inside your profile. If else, also transfer the Mail folders. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Downloads files instead of Opening them
On 1/23/14 9:20 AM +0900, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Trane Francks wrote: On 1/23/14 8:14 AM +0900, stan pierce wrote: Thanks, Trane, but doing this is beyond my expertise. Stan. Opening a file in Notepad and pasting stuff in is beyond your expertise? It really shouldn't be much more difficult than that. There are other MIME types in the file that you can use to confirm you're in the right area. Each of the RDF:Description blocks I've entered here are stand-alone descriptors. The trick, of course, is knowing what to copy/paste and where... If Stan doesn't know that, the best copy/paste mechanics in the world won't do him a bit of good. He's reasonable to be cautious when he doesn't understand the directions. Of course, which is why one makes a backup copy of the file prior to getting all medieval on its contents. It's the safe way of learning. You can trash the 'new' file completely, copy the backup over it and start afresh until you've sussed out where things went wrong. Rinse and repeat as necessary. It's an XML file, not rocket science. :) -- / // Trane Franckstr...@gol.comTokyo, Japan // Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: A very strange failure ...
HenriK wrote: Last month, I experienced a PC malfunction on my main PC ... A delayed-write failure indicates that a serious disk error occurred, and data was/were lost. Check your Windows logs, identify the device in question, then disable delayed writes through Control Panel for that device or its controller. Use whatever tools are available to you to attempt to recover the data from that disk. Identify from the logs whether it is terminally ill, and if so, replace it, re-populating the new drive from backups. Even if it is not terminally ill, replacing it (or at least putting it into a RAID-0 configuration) would be wise. Philip Taylor ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
A very strange failure ...
Last month, I experienced a PC malfunction on my main PC that I have never encountered before. Although I have been around long enough to have owned PCs from the original IBM PC onwards, I have never really understood the Windows OS very well. Today's NT-based Windows OS leaves me utterly confused. I have no idea as to whether my problem is a Windows problem, a SeaMonkey e-mail problem, a hardware problem, or some combination of all three. Accordingly, I need some advice, either on-list or off list and at no more than a moderately complex level, to assist me in sorting out what happened and how to restore my main PC to proper operating condition. The PC at issue is a 32 bit Dell Precision 650 with dual 3.2 gHz CPUs running XP-Pro SP3, fully updated as of 11-30-2013. My browser/e-mail client is SeaMonkey, v.2.21. Because of advice given to me early in my PC history, I have long had the habit of dividing my hard drives into fairly small partitions to facilitate easier backup (i.e., I have the SeaMonkey executables and e-mail files in a partition shared with nothing else). Another partition is devoted only to Microsoft Office executables and files and my C:\ partition only contains the OS and its files plus those application files that must reside in the same partition as the OS). The first hint that something was going wrong came as I logged out of the SeaMonkey e-mail client and an error message flashed for an instant saying something about '... delayed write ...' (details of the error message were not caught) and the PC rebooted. As the PC rebooted, the OS indicated that two partitions (the partition containing the SeaMonkey files and the partition containing the Microsoft Office files) needed to be evaluated 'for consistency', whatever that means. When I tried to re-initiate the SeaMonkey e-mail client, it didn't work, referring me to the SeaMonkey wizard asking that I establish an e-mail account. As there had been four e-mail accounts just a few minutes prior to whatever went wrong, I used Windows Explorer to look at what files were actually still in my SeaMonkey partition. It seemed that everything that should have been in the partition, so far as I could remember, was still there (including my substantial archive of the actual e-mail messages). In addition, I found a new file with a bunch of zeros in the name which I think I have seen on other failure occasions called 'lost chains', whatever that means. I quickly copied all of the e-mail message files to a CD-R and turned the PC off. In the past couple of days, I have begun trying to sort out what happened. When I start the PC, the OS indicates that two partitions (the partition containing the SeaMonkey files and the partition containing the Microsoft Office files) need to be evaluated 'for consistency' but doesn't write anything additional to the SeaMonkey partition and has never added anything to the Microsoft Office partition. Does this mean that the OS has found something wrong with the file indexes in those two partitions? How do I fix this problem? Everything else on the PC - including the Microsoft Office partition - appears to operate properly. Alternatively, do I have to reformat the two partitions at issue and reinstall all of the software in those two partitions or what? Could this problem be an indication of an impending hard drive failure? Is this really a Microsoft OS problem and should I refer my dilemma to a Microsoft forum? Why are at least some of my e-mail initiation [profile (?)] files now apparently missing? Could it have been something that I can't imagine? Help! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Body & Attachments
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:31:37 -0600, JohnW-Mpls wrote: >WinXP, SM 2.22.1 > >I had sent a copy of a message to myself and when looking at the copy I >received, the body of the message included text from files attached to the >message. How can that happen? > >I always thought that the body and attachments are totally separate. NOTE: This was a New Message. AFAIK: Forwarding's options of Inline or Attached not involved. -- JohnW-MN ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Download Manager propagates slowly
Interviewed by CNN on 22/01/2014 21:10, stan pierce told the world: > Used to be that when I selected the Download Manager, it immediately > came up with all the entries. Now, when I select the Download Manager, > it comes up empty and takes about 15 seconds before it propagates. How many old entries are there in your Download Manager? If you have a lot, perhaps purging old entries would help you. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.23 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Transfer all SM settings and mail archives to new computer
John E wrote: [Description about profile deleted] - there should be no difference where the seamonkey binary is installed. - make sure seamonkey is closed on both machines (for your accounts). - just transfer $HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini and the profile (the .default) AS IS, DO NOT RENAME, as the value of is inside profiles.ini. You can delete the current .default. - I assume that all your mail data is inside your profile. If else, also transfer the Mail folders. -- Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge. -- Kirk, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Transfer all SM settings and mail archives to new computer
Hi, I've installed SM 2.23 on a new computer with Linux Ubuntu but all my currently working settings, browser history and POP mail archives are on an older machine running SM 2.4.1 on an older Ubuntu. I'd like to transfer all my operations from my old machine to my new one as smoothly as possible, so that my new machine will remember all my old browser-stored passwords, my old browser history, the UIDLs for several current POP e-mail accounts, and will have my quite extensive set of archived local mail folders on it. On my older machine, much of the data I guess I need appears to in a folder with a name like /home/john/.mozilla/seamonkey/.default It currently contains 1,787 items totalling 727MB On my newer machine, I have a folder with a name like /home/john/.mozilla/seamonkey/.default which basically only has the newly installed default data that comes with SM2.23 on it. Question is, if I copy all the data from the /.default folder on my old machine and paste it all into the /.default folder on my new machine, is that likely to work? Is there anything else I ought to worry about to make my transition go smoothly? Would it make a difference that on my old machine I've been running SM 2.4.1 from a /home/john/seamonkey/seamonkey folder whereas on my new computer, it runs from a /usr/local/seamonkey folder? I'm also wondering whether any of the default contents of the .default folder that came with my SM2.23 contain new features or facilities that would be lost if I replace them with my .default data derived from SM 2.4.1. Any warnings or suggestions on this transfer would be much appreciated. Thanks. + John ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
