said:
>
>
>>I have tried many ways to insert copies of these mail directories into
>>the TB mail directory tree, but to no avail. Mozilla (and Thunderbird)
>>seem to have gone to great lengths to obfuscate the organization of
>>their mail folders and the directory structure.
>
>
> How so? Looks pretty simple to me.
>
> Let's assume you are using Thunderbird.
>
> What I would do for each of the mail folders I want to copy is:
>
> - create a placeholder folders to the folders to be moved.
> - shut down Thunderbird
> - copy just the mail data to the placeholder folders
> this is the big file without and extension
> - restart Thunderbird
> - reindex the folder
Ok, this seems to have worked. I now have most of the stuff where I want
it. I just have to weed out the duplicate stuff, and I will have it in
order for the first time in several years!
Rhetorical questions though:
Why all this BS?
Why *.SBD? Why do I have to CREATE the directory structure from within
TB/Mozilla?
All filesystems that I have seen provide for this.
Why can't TB/Mozilla just read the directory structure and use it?????
> If you look at prefs.js the organization of the mail folders should be
> pretty obvious.
I have now taken a look at that. It shows where they are, which I
already knew, plus a LOT of other stuff, which I will have to study.
>>Much of the time, they do not show up in the drive
>>object from the WPS, either.
Here, I seem to have run afoul of the WPS. I have been working from the
cmd line, looking at the real names, and doing some of the deletions of
old stuff from a drive object when there are a lot of files or a large
tree to delete. I guess the drive object is showing me the longname.
Directories actually were showing up in the drive object, just not with
a recognizable name.
> This is telling you is INI cleaning time.
Did that early on. No change, as things were fairly clean already. :-)
Thanks, once again for your help!
--
Tom Brown
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
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