SillyDog701

[pepperidge]

I've been trying to back up my mail files for 4.79 due to changing hard drives...

Is there an easy way?

MY inbox has been cleaned out except for a few necessary non multi-media non attachment ones(about 20)...

I tried to burn it to cd and it is too big... the inbox.snm is smaller but doesnot contain the same e-mails...

Can this be converted to text and then back to a netscape mail file?

I'm lost at this point...any suggestions would be appreciated...

***on edit: I'm on a different PC, so 8.0 is not being used on the one I'm reformatting...

Thanks,

Paul

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[profman]

I've been trying to back up my mail files for 4.79 due to changing hard drives...

Is there an easy way?

MY inbox has been cleaned out except for a few necessary non multi-media non attachment ones(about 20)...

I tried to burn it to cd and it is too big... the inbox.snm is smaller but does not contain the same e-mails...

Can this be converted to text and then back to a Netscape mail file?

I'm lost at this point...any suggestions would be appreciated...

***on edit: I'm on a different PC, so 8.0 is not being used on the one I'm reformatting...

Thanks,

Paul

What exactly is too BIG? Unless you have a good portion of the internet saved to your mailbox, it is hard to imagine any one file not fitting on a CD. When backing up, you are free to save the various files from your mailbox on to more than one CD if they all do not fit onto one CD. You can also ZIP files to make files smaller. In fact, zipping avoids the embarrassing mistake of trying to use Read Only files from a CD.

For reference, go to Ramona's Netscape Solutions and download her index file for locating her stuff on the Netscape 4.x series. She has one topic, Moving the Netscape Communicator Users Data From PC to PC, that should be of assistance to you. Files with the *.snm extension need not be backed-up. They are mail summary files that are rebuilt by Netscape.

Post back with more details if my comments do not help you out. Perhaps others may be able to help. Be sure to post back if you solve your problem.

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[pepperidge]

What exactly is too BIG? Unless you have a good portion of the internet saved to your mailbox, it is hard to imagine any one file not fitting on a CD. When backing up, you are free to save the various files from your mailbox on to more than one CD if they all do not fit onto one CD. You can also ZIP files to make files smaller. In fact, zipping avoids the embarrassing mistake of trying to use Read Only files from a CD.

For reference, go to Ramona's Netscape Solutions and download her index file for locating her stuff on the Netscape 4.x series. She has one topic, Moving the Netscape Communicator Users Data From PC to PC, that should be of assistance to you. Files with the *.snm extension need not be backed-up. They are mail summary files that are rebuilt by Netscape.

Post back with more details if my comments do not help you out. Perhaps others may be able to help. Be sure to post back if you solve your problem.

1,241,940kb to be exact...I have no interest in backing up the snm file as I know it is not needed... I believe netscape to be corrupt as I always delete unnecessary e-mails and I only have about 20 non file non photo non attachment e-mails in my inbox in 4.79...I tried to "open" the file using netscape but it is too large... However...From what was readable before it timed out due to size was e-mails from 2002 that had been deleted long ago c:/programfiles/netscape/users/****/mail/inbox (this is the location of the file I want to back up correct?)

I don't know why it has saved such a large # of e-mails from so long ago...

Every now and then communicator would reload the inbox and there would be 6 or so e-mails that will always return, no matter how often I delete them...I just want to be able to maybe open the file and delete all that stuff that I don't know why it has saved despite deletion...

I do appreciate your time and responses... I will check out that site and see what it has to offer as well...

Thanks again,

Paul

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[profman]

You might try, with Netscape not running, to delete all the summary files (all those with the *.snm suffix). Then restart Netscape, open the mail, and, somewhere along the line, Netscape ought to rebuild the mailbox.

If you are a bit paranoid, then, before deletion, you might backup these *.snm files to another location in case Netscape blows a fuse when attempting to rebuild the summary files.

If Netscape 4.x has a "compress" feature for its mail, then this would also be a useful thing to do to see if it helps reduce the size of your mailbox. I only have Netscape 4.7x installed on one system (and use it only for reference), and I am not at that location right this moment.

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