From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse   
      
   On 21/08/2025 9:32 pm, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:   
   > Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 21/08/2025 5:49 am, bey24thgfdhg wrote:   
   >>> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>> On 20/08/2025 4:40 am, bey24thgfdhg wrote:   
   >>>>> bey24thgfdhg wrote:   
   >>>>>> For some reason I have ended up with multiple, sometimes more than   
   >>>>>> 10, msf files for e.g. the INBOX folder and sometimes multiple   
   >>>>>> ones for Sent and Spam. Why is this and how can I clean up so I   
   >>>>>> only have one msf file for each mail folder?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The problem is that multiple inboxes for a single email account are   
   >>>>> created and giving names such as INBOX, INBOX-1, INBOX-2 etc. I   
   >>>>> want to get rid of all but INBOX and its associated msf file.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> How to do this?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As I recall, the msf files are, effectively, just index files for   
   >>>> your various Inbox files. You can delete them and a new file will be   
   >>>> created when you select the Inbox with-in SeaMonkey.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you have more Inbox's than you require, completely close   
   >>>> SeaMonkey then have a look at the Properties of the Profile Folders   
   >>>> in your File Manager. As I recall, the Folders with-in the Profile   
   >>>> MUST be write-enabled .... so *NOT* be marked as *Read Only*   
   >>>>   
   >>>> When you have checked this, you should be able to start SeaMonkey   
   >>>> and drag any e-mails in the other INBOX-1, INBOX-2, etc, into your   
   >>>> Primary Inbox.   
   >>>   
   >>> I am running Linux and SeaMonkey is able to download messages etc. so   
   >>> I cannot see that there is any read-only restriction in the file   
   >>> system itself. Googling I found that this has been a long-standing   
   >>> bug in Thunderbird which possibly means that this is also a SeaMonkey   
   >>> bug? If correct, I am surprised it has not been fixed?   
   >>   
   >> "means that this is also a SeaMonkey bug" .... that YOU and YOU alone   
   >> have come across over twenty-odd years.   
   >>   
   >> With your mention of Thunderbird .... have you got it open at the SAME   
   >> time as you are trying to use SeaMonkey??   
   >>   
   >> Have you got SEPERATE profiles for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey?? Or are   
   >> you trying to run BOTH Thunderbird AND SeaMonkey AT THE SAME TIME   
   >> USING THE SAME PROFILE??   
   >   
   > I don't think using the same profile even possible.   
      
   That's what I though. The first to open would 'own' the Profile files   
   and then the second (running at the same time) would have to,   
   effectively, create a second profile (or secondary files, hence the   
   INBOX-2, etc, that were mentioned.   
      
   Or if you were to set TB up with a Profile IN A TOTALLY SEPERATE   
   LOCATION, maybe THEN you could run both at the same time.   
      
   > As for running TB and SM at the same time, I do that occasionally   
   > without any ill-effects.   
      
   With seperate profiles in seperate locations??   
      
   > Having just looked at my SM profile, the newest first-level .msf file   
   > under Mail is dated July 2022.  The second-level ones are newer.   
      
   Sorry! "first-level .msf" and "second-level"?? WHAT second-level .msf??   
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