Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes: 1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems-- e.g., if your inbox is the one with problems, delete inbox.msf. Do NOT delete the file named Inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. To help keep your system healthy after you get it working again, compact your mail folders regularly, and move messages you want to keep out of your inbox into their own mail folder. Where is my Profile Folder? On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/.default/ (~ represents your Home Directory) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/07/2011, at 10:24 AM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Folk, I have a a an issue with a corrupted maibox on Thunderbird. There are three email addresses in and it does NOt appear to affect the INbox but only two others. is there a website I can go to to get a solution?Most of it is, as usual, Windows. Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
Ronni, See my comments below, however, the thing to note is that we transferred from in-silico to get-on-line quite smoothly (6 months ago) and all email accounts were operating normally, new account data all correct. ( until Mid May) I rang in-silico just now and they have no trace of any activity for any of the old accounts Notes follow On 08/07/2011, at 2:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird All done. Re-open: all mail gone for both email accounts. Re-install the saved in-silico mail folders one by one and find No 1 and No3 were required, No2 wasn't. Tried sending emails from the other computer - none getting throughto the two accounts. Thinking. do I delete the .msf files as per your standard protocol? I am still perplexed about the use of a defunct name! Bill If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes: 1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems-- e.g., if your inbox is the one with problems, delete inbox.msf. Do NOT delete the file named Inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. To help keep your system healthy after you get it working again, compact your mail folders regularly, and move messages you want to keep out of your inbox into their own mail folder. Where is my Profile Folder? On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/ .default/ (~ represents your Home Directory) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/07/2011, at 10:24 AM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Folk, I have a a an issue with a corrupted maibox on Thunderbird. There are three email addresses in and it does NOt appear to affect the INbox but only two others. is there a website I can go to to get a solution?Most of it is, as usual, Windows. Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Using iTunes Film Description Field
Hi Alan, I seem to remember reading something about iTunes short description field is limited to 255 characters. Ok, I’ve done some searching and found this information. I’m not sure if this AppleScript from ‘Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes’ will do what you want. I’ve never used it, so cannot comment on whether it works or not. I have used other Doug’s Applescripts find them very useful. Please read the “read me pdf” and all information at the link below, and proceed at your own risk ;-) http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=longdescriptiontodescription Long Description to Description v1.0 This script will copy the contents a the Long Description tag to the Description tag of each selected track. The Description tag can only have 255 characters. Purchased/protected tracks cannot be modified with this script as iTunes will just default to the information in the file's meta data. Cheers, Ronni On 08/07/2011, at 12:10 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Is there a method to provide a description to Films, TV Shows, etc in iTunes that is longer than about 250 characters? (iTunes vers 10.3.1) Movies downloaded from the iTunes Store have an embedded description viewable in the iTunes application. Descriptions can be quite detailed and lengthy. Using File Get Info - Video/Description field, I can only see about the first 250 characters.I can type information about one of my own movies in the Video/Description field but characters past the 250th do not display in iTunes and are not saved within the data entry field. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: ACPI Non-Compliant installing Win 7 over XP2 in VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro
Thanks Daniel and Ronni. This thread helped: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/268775?tstart=0 Rather than mess about with it I reinstalled it in a new Virtual Machine so now have 3 machines! Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net On 07/07/2011, at 8:06 pm, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Reg, Re: Windows 7 Upgrade and Fusion 3 When you install the Windows 7 upgrade disk on a new (blank) drive or virtual machine just skip the S/N field during the initial install. Leave it blank and click next. When the install completes implement method #2 on this website.http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter This will allow you to submit your S/N and activate with Microsoft. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/238899 Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 07/07/2011, at 7:43 PM, Reg Whitely rwhit...@internode.on.net wrote: Dear WAMUGgers I have just tried to install a legitimate Dept of Education Data#3 Upgrade of Win 7 Ultimate over my existing DOE XP2 version, running in VMWare Fusion v3.1.3, on my Macbook Pro 2.2, i7, 750GB HDD, 8Gb RAM. I believe I have allocated enough disk space and RAM for the installation - 60GB HDD and 4GB RAM and have expanded XP2 to accommodate this change using Easeus Partition Master. When trying to install Win 7, I get this message: This computer is not compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard. Windows must be installed onto a computer that supports ACPI. Contact your computer manufacturer for a BIOS update or install Windows on an ACPI-compliant computer. I understand this will be a Custom install and have used Easy Transfer For Win 7 software to back up data. I'm not really worried about this data, as I am only using this as a demo to non-Mac believers. Can anyone please give advice or suggestion to overcome this problem? Many thanks Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
Hi Bill, I wonder what changed in “Mid May” ??? On 08/07/2011, at 3:21 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, See my comments below, however, the thing to note is that we transferred from in-silico to get-on-line quite smoothly (6 months ago) and all email accounts were operating normally, new account data all correct. ( until Mid May) I rang in-silico just now and they have no trace of any activity for any of the old accounts Notes follow On 08/07/2011, at 2:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird All done. Re-open: all mail gone for both email accounts. Did you “restore corrupted mailboxes” again? Re-install the saved in-silico mail folders one by one and find No 1 and No3 were required, No2 wasn’t. A. Quit Thunderbird and backup/ copy the No2 Mail folder (which you have said is not required). B. Then delete the No.2 folder Then follow the instruction to “To restore corrupted mailboxes:” As in my first reply to you, making sure you Do NOT delete the file with no filename extension, as it contains your messages. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. Tried sending emails from the other computer - none getting throughto the two accounts. Thinking. do I delete the .msf files as per your standard protocol? I am still perplexed about the use of a defunct name! I’m confused as to why, perhaps you never changed the profile when you switched over? Or didn’t import the mail messages into your new profile? I don’t use Thunderbird, I use Apple Mail, so I am unsure of the process. Perhaps someone who uses Thunderbird can help more. http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/search?q=Thunderbird+for+Mac http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/home Cheers, Ronni Bill If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes: 1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems-- e.g., if your inbox is the one with problems, delete inbox.msf. Do NOT delete the file named Inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. To help keep your system healthy after you get it working again, compact your mail folders regularly, and move messages you want to keep out of your inbox into their own mail folder. Where is my Profile Folder? On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/.default/ (~ represents your Home Directory) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/07/2011, at 10:24 AM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Folk, I have a a an issue with a corrupted maibox on Thunderbird. There are three email addresses in and it does NOt appear to affect the INbox but only two others. is there a
Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
Its the mid May thing that has me bothered. I do not use Thunderbird either, but I will try further after backing up all emails in both accounts and try deleting the .msf files as per protocol earlier. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, I wonder what changed in “Mid May” ??? On 08/07/2011, at 3:21 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, See my comments below, however, the thing to note is that we transferred from in-silico to get-on-line quite smoothly (6 months ago) and all email accounts were operating normally, new account data all correct. ( until Mid May) I rang in-silico just now and they have no trace of any activity for any of the old accounts Notes follow On 08/07/2011, at 2:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird All done. Re-open: all mail gone for both email accounts. Did you “restore corrupted mailboxes” again? Re-install the saved in-silico mail folders one by one and find No 1 and No3 were required, No2 wasn’t. A. Quit Thunderbird and backup/ copy the No2 Mail folder (which you have said is not required). B. Then delete the No.2 folder Then follow the instruction to “To restore corrupted mailboxes:” As in my first reply to you, making sure you Do NOT delete the file with no filename extension, as it contains your messages. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. Tried sending emails from the other computer - none getting throughto the two accounts. Thinking. do I delete the .msf files as per your standard protocol? I am still perplexed about the use of a defunct name! I’m confused as to why, perhaps you never changed the profile when you switched over? Or didn’t import the mail messages into your new profile? I don’t use Thunderbird, I use Apple Mail, so I am unsure of the process. Perhaps someone who uses Thunderbird can help more. http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/search?q=Thunderbird+for+Mac http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/home Cheers, Ronni Bill If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes: 1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems-- e.g., if your inbox is the one with problems, delete inbox.msf. Do NOT delete the file named Inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. To help keep your system healthy after you get it working again, compact your mail folders regularly, and move messages you want to keep out of your inbox into their own mail folder. Where is my Profile Folder? On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/ .default/ (~ represents your Home Directory) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/07/2011, at 10:24 AM, Bill Parker
Re: Using iTunes Film Description Field
Hi Ronni This will need more investigation by me. I had a quick look at Doug's AppleScripts site and saw several items of interest. As you suggested, it seems there is a 255 character limit for user input in iTunes. The 'OH!' moment was the use of the term 'long description' which I didn't know about. it appears the long description is built into the movie itself and many people want to transfer that information into iTunes.I find there are a lot of threads in the forums about this. Now I will give a deeper look at iTunes tags and the discussion threads now I know what to look for. (I've been avoiding AppleScripts and Automator and other arcane Mac things.) Perhaps I will just have to hone my writing skills to make a movie synopsis and Apple TV comment in just a sentence or two. Thanks very much for your response. Cheers Alan On 08/07/2011, at 3:56 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Alan, I seem to remember reading something about iTunes short description field is limited to 255 characters. Ok, I’ve done some searching and found this information. I’m not sure if this AppleScript from ‘Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes’ will do what you want. I’ve never used it, so cannot comment on whether it works or not. I have used other Doug’s Applescripts find them very useful. Please read the “read me pdf” and all information at the link below, and proceed at your own risk ;-) http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=longdescriptiontodescription Long Description to Description v1.0 This script will copy the contents a the Long Description tag to the Description tag of each selected track. The Description tag can only have 255 characters. Purchased/protected tracks cannot be modified with this script as iTunes will just default to the information in the file's meta data. Cheers, Ronni On 08/07/2011, at 12:10 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Is there a method to provide a description to Films, TV Shows, etc in iTunes that is longer than about 250 characters? (iTunes vers 10.3.1) Movies downloaded from the iTunes Store have an embedded description viewable in the iTunes application. Descriptions can be quite detailed and lengthy. Using File Get Info - Video/Description field, I can only see about the first 250 characters.I can type information about one of my own movies in the Video/Description field but characters past the 250th do not display in iTunes and are not saved within the data entry field. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
Ronni, Can now report success by deleting the relevant .msf files and re- starting. Both accounts now work again. I don't think it matters much what the files are called and that in-silico are not experiencing any issues. Thank you so much for your help. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:34 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Its the mid May thing that has me bothered. I do not use Thunderbird either, but I will try further after backing up all emails in both accounts and try deleting the .msf files as per protocol earlier. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, I wonder what changed in “Mid May” ??? On 08/07/2011, at 3:21 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, See my comments below, however, the thing to note is that we transferred from in-silico to get-on-line quite smoothly (6 months ago) and all email accounts were operating normally, new account data all correct. ( until Mid May) I rang in-silico just now and they have no trace of any activity for any of the old accounts Notes follow On 08/07/2011, at 2:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird All done. Re-open: all mail gone for both email accounts. Did you “restore corrupted mailboxes” again? Re-install the saved in-silico mail folders one by one and find No 1 and No3 were required, No2 wasn’t. A. Quit Thunderbird and backup/ copy the No2 Mail folder (which you have said is not required). B. Then delete the No.2 folder Then follow the instruction to “To restore corrupted mailboxes:” As in my first reply to you, making sure you Do NOT delete the file with no filename extension, as it contains your messages. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. Tried sending emails from the other computer - none getting throughto the two accounts. Thinking. do I delete the .msf files as per your standard protocol? I am still perplexed about the use of a defunct name! I’m confused as to why, perhaps you never changed the profile when you switched over? Or didn’t import the mail messages into your new profile? I don’t use Thunderbird, I use Apple Mail, so I am unsure of the process. Perhaps someone who uses Thunderbird can help more. http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/search?q=Thunderbird+for+Mac http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/home Cheers, Ronni Bill If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes: 1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems-- e.g., if your inbox is the one with problems, delete inbox.msf. Do NOT delete the file named Inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. To help keep your system healthy after you get it working again, compact your mail folders regularly, and move messages you want to keep out of your inbox into their own mail folder. Where is my Profile Folder? On Mac
USA version of program
I am looking at buying a full version of Filemaker Pro Sticks in the craw, tho, when you see the difference in the price offered to Americans vs Aussie price. We're talking the developer version, cos I like developing my own database (hobby wise). I can't see how the program would be any different. But the price is $300 different! Not to mention that the AU$ is higher than the US$ Can I purchase a USA version or would I be stopped if the application noticed my address being in Oz? If so, given that I have a .com address, not .au, can I pretend to be a US resident? Maybe a private answer, rather than public one. Regards, C. Brett Curtis Master Window Cleaners br...@masterwindowcleaners.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
That’s good Bill, As long as we get the result you wanted, I guess it doesn’t matter if we don’t find the reason “How” the problem happened ;-) I’m pleased I was able to help. Cheers, Ronni On 08/07/2011, at 5:09 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, Can now report success by deleting the relevant .msf files and re-starting. Both accounts now work again. I don't think it matters much what the files are called and that in-silico are not experiencing any issues. Thank you so much for your help. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:34 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Its the mid May thing that has me bothered. I do not use Thunderbird either, but I will try further after backing up all emails in both accounts and try deleting the .msf files as per protocol earlier. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, I wonder what changed in “Mid May” ??? On 08/07/2011, at 3:21 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, See my comments below, however, the thing to note is that we transferred from in-silico to get-on-line quite smoothly (6 months ago) and all email accounts were operating normally, new account data all correct. ( until Mid May) I rang in-silico just now and they have no trace of any activity for any of the old accounts Notes follow On 08/07/2011, at 2:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird All done. Re-open: all mail gone for both email accounts. Did you “restore corrupted mailboxes” again? Re-install the saved in-silico mail folders one by one and find No 1 and No3 were required, No2 wasn’t. A. Quit Thunderbird and backup/ copy the No2 Mail folder (which you have said is not required). B. Then delete the No.2 folder Then follow the instruction to “To restore corrupted mailboxes:” As in my first reply to you, making sure you Do NOT delete the file with no filename extension, as it contains your messages. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. Tried sending emails from the other computer - none getting throughto the two accounts. Thinking. do I delete the .msf files as per your standard protocol? I am still perplexed about the use of a defunct name! I’m confused as to why, perhaps you never changed the profile when you switched over? Or didn’t import the mail messages into your new profile? I don’t use Thunderbird, I use Apple Mail, so I am unsure of the process. Perhaps someone who uses Thunderbird can help more. http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/search?q=Thunderbird+for+Mac http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/home Cheers, Ronni Bill If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes: 1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems-- e.g., if your inbox is the one with problems, delete inbox.msf. Do NOT delete the file named Inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will
Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
Looks like I spoke too soon.I can send emails from one computer in the house to the other but they do not work from external senders! So any WAMUG folks with Thunderbird expertise? Please let me know. Thanks again Ronni, but it seems that deleting the .msf files does not work. So it maybe isn't a corruption event. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 5:38 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: That’s good Bill, As long as we get the result you wanted, I guess it doesn’t matter if we don’t find the reason “How” the problem happened ;-) I’m pleased I was able to help. Cheers, Ronni On 08/07/2011, at 5:09 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, Can now report success by deleting the relevant .msf files and re- starting. Both accounts now work again. I don't think it matters much what the files are called and that in-silico are not experiencing any issues. Thank you so much for your help. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:34 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Its the mid May thing that has me bothered. I do not use Thunderbird either, but I will try further after backing up all emails in both accounts and try deleting the .msf files as per protocol earlier. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, I wonder what changed in “Mid May” ??? On 08/07/2011, at 3:21 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, See my comments below, however, the thing to note is that we transferred from in-silico to get-on-line quite smoothly (6 months ago) and all email accounts were operating normally, new account data all correct. ( until Mid May) I rang in-silico just now and they have no trace of any activity for any of the old accounts Notes follow On 08/07/2011, at 2:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird All done. Re-open: all mail gone for both email accounts. Did you “restore corrupted mailboxes” again? Re-install the saved in-silico mail folders one by one and find No 1 and No3 were required, No2 wasn’t. A. Quit Thunderbird and backup/ copy the No2 Mail folder (which you have said is not required). B. Then delete the No.2 folder Then follow the instruction to “To restore corrupted mailboxes:” As in my first reply to you, making sure you Do NOT delete the file with no filename extension, as it contains your messages. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. Tried sending emails from the other computer - none getting throughto the two accounts. Thinking. do I delete the .msf files as per your standard protocol? I am still perplexed about the use of a defunct name! I’m confused as to why, perhaps you never changed the profile when you switched over? Or didn’t import the mail messages into your new profile? I don’t use Thunderbird, I use Apple Mail, so I am unsure of the process. Perhaps someone who uses Thunderbird can help more. http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/search?q=Thunderbird+for+Mac http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/home Cheers, Ronni Bill If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes: 1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the
Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet
Hi Matthew, I would hate to burst your bubble, but if you are connecting via PPoE, you connection is being NAT'd, monitored and filtered. This is in response to peoples lack of understanding of how networks function, do you think ISP's will give people access without some form of control. Just plugging a router, ADSL Modem into any PPoE connection and watch the amount of traffic attempting access. What and whom do you think is stopping most of it getting into your system. If you do not see any then it definitely is being controlled. I am totally surprised everyday the amount of routers which are connected without some form of firewall in place. This is business and private usage, and yes a firewall is not the only answer. But, it is a start. Cheers! `RobD... On 08Jul2011 at 10:00 am, Matthew Healey wrote: , Hi Rob, Don't confuse filtering with censoring. I can choose not to use SPAM filters or Virus Scanners. That's the difference. As Ronni mentioned, the problem is that once the infrastructure is in place to block web sites at will, then those in power will use that ability to their advantage. These sorts of things are ALWAYS pushed though with some sort of boogie-man, be it communism, terrorism, national security or Won't someone please think of the children!!. It's just a convenient scapegoat. - Matt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Thunderbird corruption problem
Bill Have you upgraded to Version 5? If not, do all the usual prep: backup, run disk utility etc and then download Version 5 and see whether that has any effect. Merv On Fri8Jul2011 Fri8Jul7:24 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Looks like I spoke too soon. I can send emails from one computer in the house to the other but they do not work from external senders! So any WAMUG folks with Thunderbird expertise? Please let me know. Thanks again Ronni, but it seems that deleting the .msf files does not work. So it maybe isn't a corruption event. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 5:38 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: That’s good Bill, As long as we get the result you wanted, I guess it doesn’t matter if we don’t find the reason “How” the problem happened ;-) I’m pleased I was able to help. Cheers, Ronni On 08/07/2011, at 5:09 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, Can now report success by deleting the relevant .msf files and re-starting. Both accounts now work again. I don't think it matters much what the files are called and that in-silico are not experiencing any issues. Thank you so much for your help. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:34 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Its the mid May thing that has me bothered. I do not use Thunderbird either, but I will try further after backing up all emails in both accounts and try deleting the .msf files as per protocol earlier. Bill On 08/07/2011, at 4:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, I wonder what changed in “Mid May” ??? On 08/07/2011, at 3:21 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Ronni, See my comments below, however, the thing to note is that we transferred from in-silico to get-on-line quite smoothly (6 months ago) and all email accounts were operating normally, new account data all correct. ( until Mid May) I rang in-silico just now and they have no trace of any activity for any of the old accounts Notes follow On 08/07/2011, at 2:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, Is the ‘corrupted mailbox’ problem corrected after following the previous instructions? I don’t know if these mail.insilico folders are still required as I don’t know your setup or how you did the transition. I would suggest you Quit Thunderbird first, before you move or delete the mail.insilico folders. 1. Quit Thunderbird 2. Backup / Copy the three separate mail.insilico folders to some place safe (perhaps a thumb drive), in case you need to place them back in the original position. 3. Delete the mail.insilico folders 4. Open Thunderbird All done. Re-open: all mail gone for both email accounts. Did you “restore corrupted mailboxes” again? Re-install the saved in-silico mail folders one by one and find No 1 and No3 were required, No2 wasn’t. A. Quit Thunderbird and backup/ copy the No2 Mail folder (which you have said is not required). B. Then delete the No.2 folder Then follow the instruction to “*To restore corrupted mailboxes:”* *As in my first reply to you, making sure you*Do NOT delete* the file with no filename extension, as it contains your messages.* * * *2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems.* * * *3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages.* * * Tried sending emails from the other computer - none getting throughto the two accounts. Thinking. do I delete the .msf files as per your standard protocol? I am still perplexed about the use of a defunct name! I’m confused as to why, perhaps you never changed the profile when you switched over? Or didn’t import the mail messages into your new profile? I don’t use Thunderbird, I use Apple Mail, so I am unsure of the process. Perhaps someone who uses Thunderbird can help more. http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/search?q=Thunderbird+for+Mac http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/home Cheers, Ronni Bill If you find all your messages are there and everything is working correctly, you can delete the folders you copied previously. If not, place them back where they originally were. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/07/2011, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Ronni, This turns out to be more complicated. About six months ago, we switched from hosting at in-silico to get-on-line now. Everything OK. All emails functional on two computers in the same house (bigpond ADSL) everything comes to 1. an iMac and 2. My laptop. About May 12th. all emails to two email accounts on the iMac ceased, emails to laptop continued. Upon following the protocol below I found three separate mail.insilico folders. Do I delete them? Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks very much I'll have a crack at that later. Bill On 07/07/2011, at 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, *To
Google+ Invites [First 15]
Hi All WAMUG Invites are currently open again for Google+ if you would like one please e-mail me your Gmail address to aug...@gmail.com sorry no Google Apps customers with your full name and e-mail address. You may not be able to get in straight away but registrations have been opened the last two days between 1 and 5 AM, You are also welcome to respond to this e-mail on list if you would prefer. -- Regards Kyle - Kyle Kreusch: This E-Mail Was Dictated Using One OF Nuance Communications, Dictate Products - *User Next*, *Apple and Macintosh User Group*: Websitehttp://usernext.org/| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/UserNext | Twitterhttp://twitter.com/UserNext - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Google+ Invites [First 15]
There is still plenty of invites to go out if anyone's interested, Maybe not a good idea if you don't want to spend your weekend in Google+ trust me it's addictive. -- Regards Kyle - Kyle Kreusch: This E-Mail Was Dictated Using One OF Nuance Communications, Dictate Products - *User Next*, *Apple and Macintosh User Group*: Websitehttp://usernext.org/| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/UserNext | Twitterhttp://twitter.com/UserNext - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Google+ Invites [First 15]
Shayne and Paul Your invites have been sent but unfortunately Google has closed registrations you will need to try tomorrow during the times I mentioned earlier to register. -- Regards Kyle - Kyle Kreusch: This E-Mail Was Dictated Using One OF Nuance Communications, Dictate Products - *User Next*, *Apple and Macintosh User Group*: Websitehttp://usernext.org/ | Facebook http://www.facebook.com/UserNext | Twitterhttp://twitter.com/UserNext - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
