Re: Recovering the Sent folder?

Dave Yeo wrote:
> 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


What format do you have on the USB stick? If it's FAT32, reformat it to 
JFS instead - with JFS you can back up files larger than 2Gib (2GB).


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