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os...@wisdomtree.info
Mar 31, 2020, 8:50:53 AM3/31/20
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> But when She was fooling around in the "basement" with the mailer not up and running, She invoked the LIST command in 4os2 and searched for a
> tune (ABBA's Happy New Year) She had sent to Her friend and lo and behold - the full text of the mail was visible. But when She fired up the mailer
> and did a search in the Sent folder this mail was *NOT* found at all! She wants back these Sent mails for sentimental reason, but will not try to save
> this problem before the new profile is created. But, durst She use the Migrate Settings function or should She bring up the two settings, the old one and
Is there a "Re-index mail folders" feature? That should recover lost mail.
Migrate should be thought of as "copy". It is designed to copy a functional profile to a another version of Mozilla. It is not a "repair". It will migrate
whatever problem you had before. That is why you manually check the files to find the problem.
> PS. Her trustee have A-OK'ed buying a USB-connected HD to do backups to, then don't cost very much and will be MUCH reliable than usb sticks.
> When we have accumulated enough funds and the new box is up and running with Win7, a hotted up WSeB, eCs 2.1, eCs 2.1 Business Edition (got it
> for free AND with regkeys from a guy at Mensys :-) and some flavour of Linux, then it will be time to get a decent NAS box and using some Linux
> flavour plus FreeNAS to backup the whole shebang on the new box to the NAS - NAS is web-controlled so one can set it up how the backups should be
NAS main purpose is a file server, to distribute the same files to various computers. You need protocols setup as Samba or Netbios to talk to NAS. A usb
drive with JFS and Fat32 can backup all OS listed. ECS and Linux will read both partitions, Windoze only Fat32 as usual. No protocols to install, just copy.
Too simple?
Cal
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> But when She was fooling around in the "basement" with the mailer not up and running, She invoked the LIST command in 4os2 and searched for a
> tune (ABBA's Happy New Year) She had sent to Her friend and lo and behold - the full text of the mail was visible. But when She fired up the mailer
> and did a search in the Sent folder this mail was *NOT* found at all! She wants back these Sent mails for sentimental reason, but will not try to save
> this problem before the new profile is created. But, durst She use the Migrate Settings function or should She bring up the two settings, the old one and
Is there a "Re-index mail folders" feature? That should recover lost mail.
Migrate should be thought of as "copy". It is designed to copy a functional profile to a another version of Mozilla. It is not a "repair". It will migrate
whatever problem you had before. That is why you manually check the files to find the problem.
> PS. Her trustee have A-OK'ed buying a USB-connected HD to do backups to, then don't cost very much and will be MUCH reliable than usb sticks.
> When we have accumulated enough funds and the new box is up and running with Win7, a hotted up WSeB, eCs 2.1, eCs 2.1 Business Edition (got it
> for free AND with regkeys from a guy at Mensys :-) and some flavour of Linux, then it will be time to get a decent NAS box and using some Linux
> flavour plus FreeNAS to backup the whole shebang on the new box to the NAS - NAS is web-controlled so one can set it up how the backups should be
NAS main purpose is a file server, to distribute the same files to various computers. You need protocols setup as Samba or Netbios to talk to NAS. A usb
drive with JFS and Fat32 can backup all OS listed. ECS and Linux will read both partitions, Windoze only Fat32 as usual. No protocols to install, just copy.
Too simple?
Cal
Christer Jacobsson
Apr 1, 2020, 2:34:09 AM4/1/20
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os...@wisdomtree.info wrote:
> ** Reply to note from dev-ports-...@lists.mozilla.org Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:00:02 +0000
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>> But when She was fooling around in the "basement" with the mailer not up and running, She invoked the LIST command in 4os2 and searched for a
>> tune (ABBA's Happy New Year) She had sent to Her friend and lo and behold - the full text of the mail was visible. But when She fired up the mailer
>> and did a search in the Sent folder this mail was *NOT* found at all! She wants back these Sent mails for sentimental reason, but will not try to save
>> this problem before the new profile is created. But, durst She use the Migrate Settings function or should She bring up the two settings, the old one and
>
> Is there a "Re-index mail folders" feature? That should recover lost mail.
>
Under the "Folder Properties" for the Inbox and the Sent folders there
> ** Reply to note from dev-ports-...@lists.mozilla.org Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:00:02 +0000
>>
>> But when She was fooling around in the "basement" with the mailer not up and running, She invoked the LIST command in 4os2 and searched for a
>> tune (ABBA's Happy New Year) She had sent to Her friend and lo and behold - the full text of the mail was visible. But when She fired up the mailer
>> and did a search in the Sent folder this mail was *NOT* found at all! She wants back these Sent mails for sentimental reason, but will not try to save
>> this problem before the new profile is created. But, durst She use the Migrate Settings function or should She bring up the two settings, the old one and
>
> Is there a "Re-index mail folders" feature? That should recover lost mail.
>
is indeed a "Rebuiild index", but that function She wont use before the
new profile is up and running.
> Migrate should be thought of as "copy". It is designed to copy a functional profile to a another version of Mozilla. It is not a "repair". It will migrate
> whatever problem you had before. That is why you manually check the files to find the problem.
>
Ok, then She will go the manual way with two windowed 4os2 sessions,
> whatever problem you had before. That is why you manually check the files to find the problem.
>
bring up the old profile in the 1st and and use this as a template for
the new profile. Btw, is the command for creating a new profile
"-Profile" or "-ProfileManager" with the old mailer in offline mode, so
is the parameter for bringing up the maileer with the sick profile - is
it -offline or --offline? And who should She migrate the Adress book?
Have the Newsgroups their own Adress bookk or does the various
newsgroups, i.e. eCs and Mozilla.dev.ports have their own Adress Books?
>> PS. Her trustee have A-OK'ed buying a USB-connected HD to do backups to, then don't cost very much and will be MUCH reliable than usb sticks.
>> When we have accumulated enough funds and the new box is up and running with Win7, a hotted up WSeB, eCs 2.1, eCs 2.1 Business Edition (got it
>> for free AND with regkeys from a guy at Mensys :-) and some flavour of Linux, then it will be time to get a decent NAS box and using some Linux
>> flavour plus FreeNAS to backup the whole shebang on the new box to the NAS - NAS is web-controlled so one can set it up how the backups should be
>
> NAS main purpose is a file server, to distribute the same files to various computers. You need protocols setup as Samba or Netbios to talk to NAS. A usb
> drive with JFS and Fat32 can backup all OS listed. ECS and Linux will read both partitions, Windoze only Fat32 as usual. No protocols to install, just copy.
> Too simple?
>
setup the Peer Servers to use TCP/IP over NetBios, and that would solve
the problem without using Samba. The same goes for the LAN Server, it
can be changed to use TCP/IP over NetBios - then they should "talk" to
the NAS box correctly. And a NAS will come handy when She buys a new
box, this time a Fujitsu-Siemens server model - She have used servers
because they are designed to run 365/24/7 and are much sturdier than the
home computer that you can buy at for example "Elgiganten", a Swedish
firm that sells electrical stuff including home PC's, mostly
preinstalled with the abomination called Win10 and in Swedish at that
:-( She uses English versions for all Her OS'es, Win7 32bit for the new
box and English for the various OS/2 and eCs flavours. When She worked
as a system analyst/programmer at the computer central for the National
Board for Social Security it was mainframes we used, Bull to be exact,
and ALL manuals was in English, and as an ardent sci-fi reader, the most
sci-fi and fantasy are written in English. She have book by Heinlein,
Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. LeGuin and Anne McCaffrey with her lovely book
series of the Dragonriders of Pern - the whole set from the first,
"Dragonriders" to the last "All The Weyrs of Pern" and we must not
forget the King of Space Opera namely E.E. 'Doc Smith :-)
Cul8er alligator!
gaea - feminist & chunkawakan
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Christer Jacobsson
Apr 2, 2020, 1:20:01 AM4/2/20
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os...@wisdomtree.info wrote:
> ** Reply to note from dev-ports-...@lists.mozilla.org Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:00:02 +0000
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Wnen She creates the new "Brekke" profile by ticking off the settings
> ** Reply to note from dev-ports-...@lists.mozilla.org Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:00:02 +0000
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from the old profile, under the "Privacy and Security area in the
Profile Manager, She will set it to "Remember passwords" as it's set so
in the old profile. You know these files called 78476851.s, 90820967.s,
78476851.w, cert8.db, key3.db and secmod.db? Should She simply copy them
to the new profile or must She go into the old Prefs.js, hunt them down
and place them in a user.js in the new profile, then copy these files to
the new profile? Or will the statements for these files be created
automagically by the creating of the new profile? If so, these files can
simply be copied to the right place in the new profile including the
Cookies, Bookmarks and History files?
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