Re: Mulberry crashes deleting accounts

--On Monday, October 03, 2016 12:37 PM -0400 Cyrus Daboo 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I am afraid I am not doing any Win32 development anymore so cannot debug
> the actual problem.
>
> However, what you can do is manually remove the account from the
> preferences file. Try this:
>
> 1) Go to Preferences and click "Save as" as save current preferences to a
> file.
> 2) Quit Mulberry.
> 3) Duplicate the saved file as a backup.
> 4) Open the saved file in a text editor.
> 5) Locate the line starting with "Preferences.Accounts.Mail Accounts v2".
> 6) Within that line locate the name of the account you want to delete.
> 7) Now the tricky part - that line is a nested expression using
> parenthesis to delimit section, the overall structure is:
>
> (
>     ( (<<Account Name>> IMAP <<hostname>> <<other bits>> ) (<<other
> state>>) )
>     ( (<<another account>>) (<<another state>>)
> )
>
> What you need to do is locate the second left-parenthesis before the
> account name, then fine the matching right-parenthesis for that, and the
> delete those left/right parenthesis and everything within them.
>
> 8) Save the edited file.
> 9) Launch Mulberry by double-clicking that file.
> 10) Go the the Preferences and verify the account is gone and everything
> else looks OK.
> 12) If everything is OK, click the "Save Default" button to make that set
> the default (so in future launching Mulberry directly will use those).
> 13) Quit and restart Mulberry (without clicking a prefs file).
>
> If something goes wrong, launch Mulberry using the duplicated (unmodified
> prefs file) and use that to reset your defaults.

Hi Cyrus,

Worked like a charm, thanks!

--Quanah