Re: Recovering the Sent folder?

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> As Salaam Aleikum!
>>
>> She tried to send a tune to a friend today, 14Mib in size, but SMPMW118
>> crashed and the Sent folder is now putz weg - it's not completely gone
>> but much smaller than it should be, so the question is, can it be
>> recovered someway? Unfortunately no backup exist, so can it be recovered
>> in some other way? She discovered that under the dir y:\tmp there exists
>> a number of files that seems to be temporary copies of the mailers
>> folder, perhaps even the Sent folder, anyway here is the list in
>> abbreviated form, i.e. no file size is given as it was created with the
>> command dir /b y:\tmp
>>
>> <$quote>
>> etc
>> mozilla-media-cache
>> plugtmp
>> usr
>> 4u6k4VZa.zip.part
>> clipboardcache
>> D8LB9f8v.zip.part
>> files.txt
>> inXfa45S.zip.part
>> mozsound.wav
>> N63VxDAH.zip.part
>> nscopy-1.tmp
>> nscopy-2.tmp
>> nscopy-3.tmp
>> nscopy-4.tmp
>> nscopy-5.tmp
>> nscopy-6.tmp
>> nscopy-7.tmp
>> nscopy-8.tmp
>> nscopy-9.tmp
>> nscopy-10.tmp
>> nscopy-11.tmp
>> nscopy-12.tmp
>> nscopy-13.tmp
>> nscopy-14.tmp
>> nscopy-15.tmp
>> nscopy-16.tmp
>> nscopy-17.tmp
>> nscopy-18.tmp
>> nscopy-19.tmp
>> nscopy-20.tmp
>> nscopy-21.tmp
>> nscopy-22.tmp
>> nscopy-23.tmp
>> nscopy-24.tmp
>> nscopy-25.tmp
>> nscopy-26.tmp
>> nscopy-27.tmp
>> nscopy-28.tmp
>> nscopy-29.tmp
>> nscopy-30.tmp
>> nscopy-31.tmp
>> nscopy-32.tmp
>> nscopy-33.tmp
>> nscopy-34.tmp
>> nscopy-35.tmp
>> nscopy-36.tmp
>> nscopy-37.tmp
>> nscopy-38.tmp
>> nscopy-39.tmp
>> nscopy-40.tmp
>> nscopy-41.tmp
>> nscopy-42.tmp
>> nscopy.tmp
>> nsmail-1.eml
>> nsmail-2.eml
>> nsmail-3.eml
>> nsmail-4.eml
>> nsmail-5.eml
>> nsmail-6.eml
>> nsmail-7.eml
>> nsmail.eml
>> nsmail.mp3
>> </$quote>
>>
>> So could the Sent folder be restored from one of these files (with the
>> mailer closed of course)?
> 
> You're going to have to look in the eml files and I guess the nscopy*tmp 
> files to see if they contain your sent mail, keeping the file date in 
> mind. Then mv your corrupted sent folder out of the way and replace it 
> as well as deleting your Sent.msf file. Hopefully on restarting the 
> browser, it'll rebuild the Sent.msf file and your Sent folder will be fine.
> Dave

Then She should look for the latest nsmail-*.eml and take a look into it 
   to see if She can at least partially restore the Sent folder - some 
info may be lost, but at least it would be more accurate than the 
current Sent folder. And when we ar at it, how should She protect the 
Sent folder - copying it before starting SMPMW118 or zipping it up and 
place it on another partition where there is space for it? There is 
233Mb free space on the y: partition but over 609Mb on the z: partition. 
She think that a simple xcopy Sent and it's .msf file to a location on 
the z: partition would be the simplest way of doing it - after al, there 
are no hidden files in the SMPMW118 structure. After that, it's time to 
create a brand new profile for the mailer called Brekke and place the 
info on the R: partition after creating the mozilla.org file there - 
there is over 10Gb free space there, so it should be sufficient for the 
new profile.


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