8mm Forum: Help with Netscape Messenger, Please!

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Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on March 06, 2007, 08:21 PM:

1. In Messenger, I lost the last 3 months of mail. Some of this, was very important and I would like to retrieve and restore.

2. I backed up drive C on an external HD, and yes, Netscape is there and my mail should be, too.

3. Simply cutting and pasting from external drive back to the C was not working for me.

4. I do not have a backup program available at this time. That is, another different program that would help me recover what I need.

5. When I copied from external and pasted on drive C in the Netscape folder, the original mail was not found although I believe it is there. It seems as if Netscape is running from drive C even when I searched the external drive for the mail.

6. The ISP only goes back 30 days, so there is January and February mail that I would like to recover.

7. Netscape.net did not offer any help for this process.

8. In theory, what I would like to do is recover this mail as simple as importing or exporting address books (LDIF files) which I know how to do...but this is the mail that needs to be done, not the address books.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is Windows XP SP2 and Netscape Browser 7.2 as default web surfer and email useage.

Thanks in advance.

CHIP

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on March 07, 2007, 09:35 AM:

Hi Chip, I don't think you can simply copy the inboxes etc back like that. I think you need to import the mail from within the new copy of Netscape.

I didn't think that Netscape was still in existence?

Kev.

Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on March 08, 2007, 05:14 PM:

Update - mail recovered and saved!!!!!

It was NOT possible to do this through Netscape.

Always check with your ISP as sometimes they have backups of the mail. In my situation the recovery area was immediately available I just had to weed through the junk and spam once the mail I wanted was selected I just had to re-download it.

Problem solved online in less than 10 minutes :-)

Thank you Kevin for your advice. You were right about importing....I looked into it but it was only able to import and update mail created from older versions of Netscape. The idea was there but it couldn't do what I wanted exactly. So atleast I found another way and now it's done.

CG

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on March 08, 2007, 10:55 PM:

For future reference, as Netscape 7.x is actually a repackaged Mozilla (now known as SeaMonkey) browser, your user profile, settings and all email/newsgroup messages would have been found not in the Netscape program folder, but in a subfolder of C:\Documents and Settings\[your Windows login name]\Application Data.
Just for future reference. [Wink]

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