Re: Profile, xcopy

** Reply to note from [email protected] Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:00:01 +0000
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> Why She asked this it's because She can't delete toe file attachchments,  i.e. tunes which She have sent to a friend, and that's because the old  profile
> is sick. But perhaps if She delays the reindexing the Sent  folder AFTER it's been placed in the new profile, then these attachments  can be deleted
> properly and the Sent folder can then be compacted AND  the Inbox can be compacted too in the new profile as there are tons of  space in the R:
> (FAT32) partition.
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> Yes, She will when She have all the info needed for doing it. You remember that She discovered that the info for the news.ecomstation.com DIDN'T
> existed under that dir but under news.ecomstation-1.com which She haven't created - the correct newsservername should be news.ecomstation.com. So
> should She copy the info below the ecomstation-1.com to its correct place BEFORE or AFTER the new profile is created? The ONLY newsserver that
> functions properly here in the old profile is news.mozilla.org, thanks the Great Mother for that!

 The only way to know to do something before or after is to try it. Move files, in does not functions as expected move them back and try another way.
You will have 2 profiles, 1 to experiment with.
   
> >  Get Syncdir from https://88watts.net/software.html, backup the entire directory.
> > 
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> What's the difference between doing an XCOPY of the Sent folder + it's ..msf file and doing it via the program mentioned above?

 If number of files does not change, xcopy is fine. Syncdir removes unneeded files: synchronize
  
        Cal