[gentoo-user] OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

[gentoo-user] OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

[James]

Hello,

I'm moving my primary workstation from one system to another.
I use seamonkey for web browsing and reading email.


Everything is fine, except the Mail folders can boxes do not
show up. Recrusively everything looks to be fine, but the mail
folders do not load up when the email application in Seamonkey.

The only file I see that I did not copy over is the

~/.mozilla/default/XUL.mfasl

Should that file be moved over too?


Any ideas?


James

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

[Dale]

James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm moving my primary workstation from one system to another.
> I use seamonkey for web browsing and reading email.
>
>
> Everything is fine, except the Mail folders can boxes do not
> show up. Recrusively everything looks to be fine, but the mail
> folders do not load up when the email application in Seamonkey.
>
> The only file I see that I did not copy over is the
>
> ~/.mozilla/default/XUL.mfasl
>
> Should that file be moved over too?
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> James
>
>   

Did you change the permissions for the folder?  If the owner or maybe
even the group has been changed, Seamonkey can't access the folder. 
Also keep in mind that if you were root when you copied the directory
over that it may have changed the owner/group to root.  That depends on
the command used. 

I ran into this once.  You just need to use the chown and chgrp commands
to change it.  If this is what is wrong, don't forget to make it recursive.

Hope this helps.

Dale

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[gentoo-user] Re: OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

[James]

Dale <dalek <at> exceedtech.net> writes:


> > I'm moving my primary workstation from one system to another.
> > I use seamonkey for web browsing and reading email.

> Did you change the permissions for the folder?  If the owner or maybe
> even the group has been changed, Seamonkey can't access the folder. 
> Also keep in mind that if you were root when you copied the directory
> over that it may have changed the owner/group to root.  That depends on
> the command used. 


I used  the -rp options with scp, and I have done this many, many times
with netscape and mozilla. Seamonkey just will not open
the mail folders when they are copied over....


Ahy other ideas?


James




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[gentoo-user] Re: OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

[James]

Dale <dalek <at> exceedtech.net> writes:


>       I'm moving my primary workstation from one system to another.
> I use seamonkey for web browsing and reading email.


> is wrong.  If it isn't, I'm out of ideas on my end.
> Hope that helps.
> Dale

Hello Dale,

I had to first creat identical mail folders on the new system
and copy the mail folders into each new mail folder on the
new workstation.

I  eventually found a web page that basically says you have to
do this manually.

It's all happy now


thx


James



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: migrating Seamonkey to another computer

[Dale]

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James wrote:
> Dale <dalek <at> exceedtech.net> writes:
>
>
>   
>>       I'm moving my primary workstation from one system to another.
>> I use seamonkey for web browsing and reading email.
>>     
>
>
>   
>> is wrong.  If it isn't, I'm out of ideas on my end.
>> Hope that helps.
>> Dale
>>     
>
> Hello Dale,
>
> I had to first creat identical mail folders on the new system
> and copy the mail folders into each new mail folder on the
> new workstation.
>
> I  eventually found a web page that basically says you have to
> do this manually.
>
> It's all happy now
>
>
> thx
>
>
> James
>
>
>
>   

I have transfered my systems bunches of times and I never had any
trouble like this. It seems something just got borked somewhere.
Something fishy happened but I'm glad you got it working.

Dale

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