Daniel wrote:
Serge Popper wrote:
Serge Popper wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Serge Popper wrote:
Installed SeaMonkey 1.1.18 a couple of weeks ago and have had no
problems until tonight. When I started SeaMonkey, my incoming mail
folder opened normally but was not downloading my new mail. I
clicked on the get messages and a little widow opened saying
something like working on this folder, please wait. I waited a
good while, nothing happened. I rebooted, tried again, no luck. I
downloaded and reinstalled a fresh copy of SeaMonkey. Now there
are no messages showing at all in my inbox folder. All other
functions work OK, all other folders are accessible, browser shows
no problem.
Advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Serge, did the original message in the window say that you cannot
download new mail into the inbox because it was being compacted??
When you delete an email, it is not really deleted from the inbox
file, just part of the header information is changed to make it not
show in the list of mail in your inbox. When you "File|Compact
Files" the deleted message is actually removed from the inbox file.
At times, you may get a conflict between SM trying to download mail
and SM trying to automatically compact the "inbox" because of the
setting at the bottom of the page at
Edit|Preferences|Mail&Newsgroup|Offline&Disk Space.
When you have SM running, have a look at Edit|Mail&Newsgroup Account
Settings and select the "Server Settings" part of your mail account.
At the bottom of this screen, there is the location of the "Local
Directory". Note the location as this is where SeaMonkey thinks your
profile is.
Close SeaMonkey, go make yourself a cuppa, then do Crtl-Alt-Delete
and see if SeaMonkey is still showing as running. If it is, End Task
on it.
Do a Windows Find File/Folder looking for "inbox" without the
inverted commas. The inbox is the file that SeaMonkey stores your
incoming mail in. If you find more than one inbox, your lost mail
may be in one of the other accounts.
Report back with results and if you find other inboxes, someone here
can tell you how to get all your mail into one location.
HTH
Daniel
Daniel, thanks for the great explanation. I'm just recuperating from
Swine Flu and have little energy for anything. I'll do what you
suggest and report back.
Again, thanks.
Serge
Daniel, I've done what you suggested above and have unearthed an
interesting array of files when I did my search for "inbox)
The location of the "Local Directory" is C:\DOCUMENTS AND
SETTINGS\POPPER\APPLICATIONDATA\Mozilla\Profiles\default\jcznygmx.slt\Mail\pop.gmail-1.com
None of the files found in the search include the file above.
I don't know how to list the files found in the search on this email.
Thanks,
Serge
Serge, when you did the search, did you have windows set to un-hide all
your sub-folders??
From my (failing) memory, Widows is set up to just display two levels
of sub-folder, i.e. C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\POPPER.
If your SM is working, there MUST be files/folders at that full location.
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
Bottom line is that SM is working so there are files and folders at that
full location so, I guess it is better to leave well enough alone.
Thanks for your help.
Serge
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