petery wrote:Your info on how to copy NS mail files to a new profile worked for me.
Which instructions did you follow, Peter? Do you have a link?
I'm not quite sure I understand the problem. Possibly you copied the wrong mail files?
Or did you possibly overwrite the current mail with older mail files?
If you tell us exactly what you did it would help figure out a solution.
Assuming you copied the wrong mail files (Inbox. Sent. Drafts, etc) to your current profile:
Hopefully you copied the entire Mozilla\profiles folder to a "safe" place, before reformatting the drive, and that it is still saved. Your Netscape 7.0 profile, including MAIL, is stored, depending on OS in the C:\...\...\...\APPLICATION DATA\
Mozilla\Profiles"profilename"\xxxxxxxx.SLT folder.
See
http://www.holgermetzger.de/pdl.html for default profile locations. for Win2000/XP that would be:
C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles"profilename"\xxxxxxxx.slt\
Note: If you can't find your profile in Windows 2000/XP, make sure you've set your Windows Explorer folder options to view hidden and system-protected files and folders.
You may also have more than one "profilename" listed, if you had multiple profiles set up.
For each profile:
The APPLICATION DATA\ Mozilla\Profiles"profilename"\xxxxxxxx.SLT\
MAIL folder contains subfolders named for your mailserver. Your mail files are inside those subfolders.
Each time you create a new account for the same mail server within the same profile, the mailserver subfolder name has a number appended to it, so you might have sub-folders listed for your pop.MyISP.net mailserver named
pop.MyISP.net
pop.MyISP-1.net
pop.MyISP2-.net
and so on.
There are different ways to access the old mail. One way:
You can simply RENAME the current profile's
MAIL folder to OLDMAIL then copy the saved MAIL folder to your current profile's xxxxxxxx. SLT folder, with Netscape closed. Then open Netscape and see what mail appears. If it is not the most current mail, open the Mail&Newsgroup Account settings, and select the server settings under your mail account. Then look for the Local Directory field, at the bottom of the Server Settings preference window. It will contain a folder path pointing to the mailserver foldername where Netscape is currently looking for your mail, for that mail account. Change the LAST foldername in the Local Directory field to match one of the other mailserver foldernames that exists in the MAIL folder.
For example: if your current profile's xxxxxxxx.SLT\MAIL folder contains subfolders named pop.att.net, pop.att-1.net and pop.att-2.net, your current Local Directory path might show:
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\12345678.slt\MAIL\
pop.att.net-1
you can change it to:
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\12345678.slt\MAIL\
pop.att.net-2
then close and reopen Netscape. The mail inside the pop.att-2.net folder will then appear in your mail account. You can change te Local Directory path as many times as you like, to see what mail wach mailserver folder contains.
Another route would be to set up a FAKE mail account to access the saved mail.
See
http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4632
ALL MY FOLDERS GONE from 7.1
You could also access the MAIL folder no matter where it is located, even if it is stored on another drive, by simply entering the path to the MAIL"mailserver" folder in the Local Directory path (after first copying down the current path, so that you can return to it later). For example, if your current path is
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\12345678.slt\MAIL\pop.att.net-1
change the path to:
F:\Backup\Netscape\MAIL\pop.att.net
If your saved mail is in that location.
You can then copy the mail to Local Folders, if you wish, and switch back to the original Local Directory pathm or leave as-is. It really doesn't matter what Local Directory you use for mail. You can even share the same mail folder among different profiles (that's what I do)
Hope that helps.
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