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| Thread ID: 83491 | 2007-10-04 00:51:00 | Thunderbird mail | bjf (11296) | Press F1 |
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| 597698 | 2007-10-04 00:51:00 | Afternoon all. Problem:XP refused to boot, complaining of a corrupt Sys32 file. Applied "the disk" to discover it installing another instance of XP on the D:\ drive. OK, going with that, used it to shift Documents and Settings, and Program folders to D:\ , renaming folders. Delete Windows folder on C:\ and reinstall. Now that Thunderingbird is up again, where do I look for the mail and addresses in the stuff I saved to D:\? Speak slowly please, preferably not in polysyllables. I'm long on enthusiasm but short on smarts. | bjf (11296) | ||
| 597699 | 2007-10-04 04:39:00 | I'm pretty sure your mail will be gone unless... a) you saved a copy of each e-mail to 'my docs' folder or similar. b) you left a copy on the server and can re-download. Your thunderbird stuff is saved in C:\Documents and Settings\(your name)\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\ etc If you can restore these folders in your new install you might get your old e-mails back. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 597700 | 2007-10-04 07:55:00 | It is where shortcircuit said but if you want your current copy to point elsewhere the easiest way is to edit profiles.ini. Mine looks like this [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=/mnt/DataShare/MozillaShare/Thunderbird/18nbmfqy.default IsRelative is changed from 1 to 0 and the path is to where the files are that you want to use. I have used this numerous times when reinstalling and when running more than one OS but using the one set of files. The same goes for Firefox. |
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| 597701 | 2007-10-04 22:02:00 | Thanks team. Will set aside a bit of weekend to try these out. Watch this. | bjf (11296) | ||
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