Re: Recovering the Sent folder?

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> 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.

Yes, you'll have to look at your files, at least they're in mbox format, 
basically all messages in one file.
I personally back up my profiles most of the time when I close the 
browser using rsync as well as regularly zipping and copying to a USB 
thumb drive. The rsync method is fairly quick on hard drives but slow on 
thumb drives so zipping the profile and then copying it is quickest.
Dave