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[Afan Pasalic <afan@xxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 December 2007 08:14, Afan Pasalic wrote:
> > Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > You see. It's _not_ a text file!
> > Not? But, I did the same thing to Sent, Trash and Inbox from other
> > profile (it was much, much smaller). I was able to open it even with
> > TextPad on Win and search? And I saw everything pretty much
> > "textual". That mislead me. I apology for this, really wasn't my
> > intention.
>
> Not to worry, but in many cases, such as this one, we need more 
> information. That's why we ask questions.
>
>
> > > We've been trying to get you to tell us things about this file. Now
> > > we know, it's not a text file and it's not going to be amenable to
> > > the usual text processing tools.
> > >
> > > Why don't you just access it from Thunderbird?
> > I tried once and almost screwed up the "current" T-bird I use now. :)
> > Maybe I can try on other machine?
>
> I'm a KMail guy and my use of Thunderbird (at work) has been fairly 
> unsophisticated, so someone with more experience can probably give you 
> better options, but I'd start by looking for an "import" command that 
> is meant to transfer mail from one installation to another.
>
> And if you _don't_ use KMail, then perhaps trying to import the 
> Thunderbird mailbox into a new KMail set-up might work. There's a good 
> chance the KMail code is unrelated to that used in Thunderbird and 
> hence might handle some situations that Thunderbird itself does not 
> (e.g., the possibility that your Thunderbird mailbox is corrupted 
> somehow).
I don't use KMail, but I can try that one too (now, to get that 
important email I'll do anything :)).
Right now I installed T-bird on one old machine and moved the Inbox file 
to it. T-bird is "Building summary file for Inbox..." and looks 
promising. And it needs a time to "build" because old Inbox is really 
huge :(

Btw (OT), how you guys handle old emails? Delete all older than 2 years? 
Move to other place place? Keep all your email on your "current" computer?
I changed several computers last few years (mostly desktops and laptops 
I got from company) and every time I "make a backup" but never put it 
back on new machine?

Thanks.

-afan




> Randall Schulz
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