Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-31 Thread Mort
jean-pierre bessette wrote: Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the message was in the hope that it would stop asking me the question. Instead it seemed to compact almost constantly, causing a

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-31 Thread Eric
Mort wrote: jean-pierre bessette wrote: Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the message was in the hope that it would stop asking me the question. Instead it seemed to compact almost constantly, causing

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread Daniel
Iceman wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:58:26 -0500, jean-pierre bessette wrote in message news:mailman.5219.1356814733.32706.support-seamon...@lists.mozilla.org: Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread Rob
Iceman ismand...@hotmail.com wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:31:39 -0500, Chris Ilias wrote in message news:r5idncol7a3b4elnnz2dnuvz_o-dn...@mozilla.org: On 12-12-29 6:03 PM, Iceman wrote: SeaMonkey stores its e-mail messages in .msf files. You can do a search for those and open them with

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread MCBastos
jean-pierre bessette wrote: When I clicked on yes, the program reverted to a new installation, and I lost all emails, including all those that I had saved for the previous 6 months since I had bought this computer. Unfortunately I could not find a way to reverse what I had just done. Uh,

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread Daniel
MCBastos wrote: jean-pierre bessette wrote: When I clicked on yes, the program reverted to a new installation, and I lost all emails, including all those that I had saved for the previous 6 months since I had bought this computer. Unfortunately I could not find a way to reverse what I had

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread jean-pierre bessette
Phillipa here - the guilty party in this problem What I had done was to go through all the menus looking for options to get rid of the annoying compact or compact now , and finally at 'Help' saw 'Restart with add-ons disabled'. This was the one I clicked on and lost everything, including the

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread jean-pierre bessette
On 12/30/2012 9:34 AM, jean-pierre bessette wrote: in your SeaMonkey, next have a look at what settings you have at View-Messages-All and View-Threads-All. Does this show your missing e-mail?? Unfortunately both those options in the 'view' menu are blanked out Just realized that I had to be

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Gordon
jean-pierre bessette wrote: Phillipa here - the guilty party in this problem What I had done was to go through all the menus looking for options to get rid of the annoying compact or compact now , and finally at 'Help' saw 'Restart with add-ons disabled'. This was the one I clicked on and lost

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread jean-pierre bessette
Thank you Michael. I think you are right. Next time my SIL comes over I will get him to look at all the info. and see if he can do anything about it. Lesson learned is not to rely on email programs to store information I want to keep. Thanks too the other chaps who offered advice. Phillipa

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Gordon
jean-pierre bessette wrote: Thank you Michael. I think you are right. Next time my SIL comes over I will get him to look at all the info. and see if he can do anything about it. Lesson learned is not to rely on email programs to store information I want to keep. Thanks too the other chaps who

lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-29 Thread jean-pierre bessette
Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the message was in the hope that it would stop asking me the question. Instead it seemed to compact almost constantly, causing a 'fluttering' of the script on my

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-29 Thread Iceman
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:58:26 -0500, jean-pierre bessette wrote in message news:mailman.5219.1356814733.32706.support-seamon...@lists.mozilla.org: Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the message was in

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Ilias
On 12-12-29 6:03 PM, Iceman wrote: SeaMonkey stores its e-mail messages in .msf files. You can do a search for those and open them with Notepad. SeaMonkey stores mail in UNIX mbox format. Those are the files without an extension. MSF files are summary files that help SeaMonkey display header

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-29 Thread Michael Gordon
Iceman wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:58:26 -0500, jean-pierre bessette wrote in message news:mailman.5219.1356814733.32706.support-seamon...@lists.mozilla.org: Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-29 Thread Iceman
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:31:39 -0500, Chris Ilias wrote in message news:r5idncol7a3b4elnnz2dnuvz_o-dn...@mozilla.org: On 12-12-29 6:03 PM, Iceman wrote: SeaMonkey stores its e-mail messages in .msf files. You can do a search for those and open them with Notepad. SeaMonkey stores mail in UNIX

Re: lost 6 months of emails

2012-12-29 Thread Michael Gordon
Iceman wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:31:39 -0500, Chris Ilias wrote in message news:r5idncol7a3b4elnnz2dnuvz_o-dn...@mozilla.org: On 12-12-29 6:03 PM, Iceman wrote: SeaMonkey stores its e-mail messages in .msf files. You can do a search for those and open them with Notepad. SeaMonkey stores