Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Larry S. wrote:
Due to having to reinstall SM from time to time, I have accumulated a
series of Mail and Local folders. Can I delete any of these? They are:
Local Folders, LF-1, LF-2, LF-3 and LF-4.
LF.msf, LF-1.msf, and LF-2.msf.
Mail.ISP.net, M.ISP-1.net, M.ISP-2.net, and M.ISP-3.net (the one I
currently use)
And, finally, Mail.ISP.net.msf and M.ISP-1.net.msf
Unclear whether these are all in the same profile and all visible from
within SeaMonkey. If they are, you should be able to drag and drop
messages from unwanted folders into wanted folders and then delete the
empties, all from within SM.
If these are in different profiles and have unique names, you should be
able to copy them (ignore the .msf files, SM will recreate them as
needed) into the main profile folder (while SM is closed) and then
proceed as above from within SM. If they don't have unique names, copy
them into a scratch folder, rename them so they do, and then move them
to the main profile folder. You don't want to overwrite good folders
that have the same names.
For example, on a Windows 7 system, if you have:
C:\Users\Your Name
Here\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
and
C:\Users\Your Name
Here\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\yyyyyyyy.default\
those are two separate profiles.
When you're all done, and you're satisfied that you've saved all the
messages you want to save, you can delete the old profiles.
Larry, further to what Paul said....
delete all the *.msf files (they will be recreated as, and where,
required, then.....
If you are now settled on using, e.g., the "xxxxxxxx.default" profile,
then, in each of the *other* profiles rename the "inbox" to something
individual, e.g. inbox1, inbox2, etc, and move/copy them all into the
"xxxxxxxx.default" profile, at the same level as its "inbox"
Do likewise for the "sent" folders, and for the "Default" folders and
any others that you think you may want to keep.
Then open SeaMonkey, select Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and
delete all the non-selected profiles and delete them (SeaMonkey will not
let you delete the currently active profile.). Cancel your way out, and
in the Mail & Newsgroups screen, you should now see all the extra inbox,
sent and default folders. Move all the e-mails you want to keep into you
main inbox, sent and default folders. Delete the now empty/un-needed
inbox, sent and default folders. Close SeaMonkey.
Then, delete all the, now empty/un-needed, actual folders (I'm not sure
if deleting them in SeaMonkey actually deletes them from the disk drive,
or just from SeaMonkey's "memory")
Job done....I think!
--
Daniel
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