Lost all emails on Mozilla

kensutz

Does anyone know how I can recover them, it said I had a problem with a profile and now since I loaded it back up I've lost all my previous emails on it.

Fenster

Eh? In what sense? Webmail, downloaded mail?

kensutz

my eircom mail i had set up on it.

Lump

Don't use Mozilla


John


(I knew my time would come to say that) WH00T

kensutz

I think the word muppet springs to mind

Khannie

LOL@Muppet.

Ok, I use mozilla for email and it's stored in this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\Default User\<random_profile_dir>\ImapMail\<servername>\

Have a search through the application data\mozilla\ directory and you should be able to retrieve it.

You're looking for *.msf files.

Best of luck.

Lump

Oh come on any time there is something wrong with IE and people post here, everyone says use mozilla.... I was getting my own back.


John

Khannie

Lump wrote:

Oh come on any time there is something wrong with IE and people post here, everyone says use mozilla.... I was getting my own back.

I know your style well enough at this stage to know that

Most people probably don't though.

Lump

Khannie wrote:

I know your style well enough at this stage to know that

Most people probably don't though.

Oh god love them


John

kensutz

soz mate for the muppet thing, yesterday was a real frustrating day and I needed a mail for something.

kensutz

I found the msf files is there a way of importing them all back into the mail folder????

Khannie

There is yeah.....This is only a suggestion, and before anything goes wrong, back EVERYTHING up. Just copy / paste them to a different directory for backup.

You should have two mozilla profile folders:
Folder 1:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\Default User\<random_profile_dir1>\
and Folder 2:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\Default User\<random_profile_dir2>\

(or something similar)

Where <random_profile_dir1> contains your old .msf files and <random_profile_dir2> is the new profile directory.

Copy all the files from <random_profile_dir1> into <random_profile_dir2> (overwriting them).

This is a bit of an ugly fix, but it should work (I've done this before when my work profile got corrupted). Again, can't stress enough the importance of backing up both folders before you do anything.

Best of luck. Let us know how you get on.

kensutz

thanks Khannie will try it out later

kensutz

no joy lads, lost all my mails :mad:

Khannie

Try the mozilla forums (on mozilla.org). They're very helpful there. I'm surprised that didn't work. Like I said....it's worked for me in the past. You sure you were copying to the right directory?

Anyway....I can offer no more I'm afraid.