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Disaster
Wasn’t I just saying something about how royally effed I’d be if my old computer died? It died. Not sure what died, but something died. Karen pulled the hard drive out of it and plunked it into the disk drive slot of one of our Crescent City office computers (we’re up to our umbos in computers, I’ll have you know), and the office computer can access the data on my old computer’s disk drive, so we’re not too royally effed. I can, for example, recover my half million unpublishable words.
ANYWAY here’s the question. I can access the data files, I can back stuff up . . . but I can’t seem to figure out where my old emails are stored. We use Thunderbird. We’ve found the Thunderbird program file, but it’s not obvious at all where those old emails are hiding. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
Thanks 🙂
D.
PS: I’ll be incommunicado (email-wise) until I get that azureus account up and running again.
Somewhere like:
C:\Documents and Settings\(Your user name)\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\cwvizaa3.default\Mail\(your user ID@your ISP)
Probably.
I dunno how much help this is:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_mail_storage_location_(Thunderbird)
but that provides some info.
This:
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/thunderbird-email-database.htm
provides more information. If you aren’t sure where the files are, search the drive for *.msf: looks like Thunderbird stores those with the mail files to hold metadata.
thanks, guys . . . working on it as we speak.
Wow! Microsoar nailed it. Should be a piece of cake for Karen to get my email up and running now. Thanks again.
figures a man up to his umbos in computers would have an important one go first. Good thing you have useful people like Karen and microsoar looking out for you
And since you’re email incommunicado, I’ll just let you know that Steven Pirie sold a story to Nick Mamatas and Ellen Datlow!
http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/1174691.html?view=15955875#t15955875
Excellent!