Frog wrote on 10/05/2020 9:41 AM:
I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being
able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software (I have
addressed this problem in recent exchanges on this user group) . I am
now convinced that this might be a unfixable problem…thus, I am now
looking at removing and reinstalling SeaMonkey on my computer to see if
that will correct my newsgroup mail problem. I do have some question I
need your help/thoughts/recommendations on before initiating this
action. (((Please remember that I am not very computer technical smart
and my questions will reflect my knowledge level - my fear is possibly
loosing everything on my computer.))) Here are my questions:
---Will removing my current SeaMonkey software have any effect on my
Profile and/or my Accounts?
It shouldn't effect your Profile information, Frog .... but, just in
case, better safe than sorry ...
1. Click 'Edit' the top left of your SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups screen
2. Click 'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings'. This should display
information about your Mail and News Accounts.
3. Select 'Server Settings' on your e-mail account on the left of this
new screen.
4. Write down the location mentioned in the 'Local directory:' line of
your e-mail account. This is where your e-mails (Inbox, Sent, etc.) are
stored.
5. Do steps 3 and 4 for your "Local Folders" account and for each news
account you have set up. Also worth while writing down the newsrc file
location for each News account as well, if you wish.
6. Completely close down SeaMonkey .... Browser, Mail & Newsgroup
Screen, EVERYTHING!!
7. In your Windows 10, start up your Windows File Manager program
(Explorer, is it??) and navigate to the location you wrote down in Step
3 above.
8. Copy that folder (and everything in it) to some other location as a
backup of your e-mail account.
9. Do the same things (Step 7 and 8, above) for your "Local Folders"
account and for each on your News accounts.
So now that you have a basic back-up of your profile .....
---Should I make a backup of my SeaMonkey folders (i.e. Address Book,
Inbox, etc.) before taking this action?
See above for most of this .... no copy of the addressbook made as yet!
10. In your Windows File Manager program, do a search for 'Bookmarks'
(without the inverted commas) and look for a file called 'Bookmarks' (no
extension). Click on each one (newest one first, maybe) until you get a
screen that has similar web addresses as you would expect to find in
your SeaMonkey Browser screen.
11. In your Windows Explorer, make a copy of your 'Bookmarks' file to a
similar location that you copied your Mail and News accounts.
---Will this action have any possible effect on my email messages and/or
user group messages?
Not normally, but if you make copies, as I directed above, all is
recoverable!
---Will this action possibly fix my problem of not being able to open
user group messages in SeaMonkey?
I don't know, Frog, I'm tending towards 'No', but, at the very least,
having copies of your e-mail and news accounts, and your Bookmarks can't
hurt, can it??
FYI, it has been a long time since my present software was installed and
there have been a number of updates since that time. All updates were
allowed to write over my existing software...no start over new has been
involved for many years.
I welcome your advice on this subject.
Frog
See how you go, Frog, and report back!
--
Daniel
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