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 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 emails and making them almost unreadable. So I
looked for a way to reverse what I had done and made a bit mistake. As
I searched through the '\help' options I came across one that offered "
Restart with add-ons disabled"
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.
I have just switched over to Thunderbird, and all the current email
lists have imported completely.
Does anyone have any idea how I might retrieve those lost emails in Sea
Monkey - personal ones with photos are the ones I would like to retrieve
- or are they gone completely?
SeaMonkey stores its e-mail messages in .msf files. You can do a search for
those and open them with Notepad.
However, I think it's unlikely that attachments such as photos are still
there, if you hadn't saved them separately.
Iceman, SeaMonkey *does not* store it's e-mail messages in .msf files!!
SeaMonkey stores it's e-mails in files without the three character
suffixes, i.e. inbox, sent, draft, etc.. It then stores it's indexes in
files *with* the .msf suffixes, e.g. inbox.msf, sent.msf, draft.msf.
Jean-Pierre, 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??
If not, have a look at "Server Settings" for your e-mail account on the
Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings screen. Then do a search of your
computer for Inbox and, hopefully, you will find at least two, one in
your current Thunderbird profile and the other might be your missing
SeaMonkey profile.
--
Daniel
Happy New Year and may 2013 be better for you than 2012 was!!
Over 400 messages to catch up in m.gen
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