From: moz.champion@sympatico.ca   
      
   Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj wrote:   
   > Perhaps THE NETSCAPE GURUS can explain please.   
   >   
   > I was working on my Local Folders, moving messages between folders,   
   > etc.. The system was off-line, with the modem powered down!   
   > All of a sudden while, my hands were off the keyboard, and off   
   > the mouse!, the display (jumped around) i.e changed on its own.   
   > The folder that I had highlighted and was inspecting, disappeared.   
   > The highlight jumped to a different folder.   
   >   
   > Of course I was much surprised and went looking for my missing   
   > folder. Finally I found that:   
   > One of the other folders had suddenly acquired a subfolder,   
   > whose contents were my missing folder. Checking the files   
   > structure with the Windows file system explorer, I found   
   > that sure enough an  .sbd subdirectory had been created   
   > and my folder and its .msf file had been moved to the .sbd   
   > subdirectory.  i.e.   
   >   
   > The file structure Before was:   
   >  X:"local folders"   
   >     aaa   
   >     aaa.msf   
   >     bbb   
   >     bbb.msf   
   >    ........   
   > And After:   
   >  X:"local folders"   
   >     bbb.sbd   
   >     bbb   
   >     bbb.msf   
   >    ..........   
   >  and in bbb.sbd   
   >     aaa   
   >     aaa.msf   
   >   
   > I also noticed a bunch of folders in the Netscape Local Folders   
   > structure, (and they were reflected in the Windows explorer structure   
   > of X:"local folders") that I had not created.   
   > Looking at the contents of these I was surprised to find that some   
   > of them were holding contents just like some groups of messages   
   > that I had been moving around between different folders earlier.   
   > I.E These seemed to be some kind of Netscape temporaries ???   
   > The names on these extra folders were: nstmp, nstmp-1, nstmp-2 ...   
   > Some of the contents of the other nstmp-* folders   
   > seemed to be quite old. i.e. not messages that I had been   
   > manipulating recently.   
   >   
   > WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ???   
   > --   
   > Rostyk   
   >   
      
   If Mozilla/Netscape was off and not running, then *it* didnt do anything   
   - it was your system that did    
   so best ask a windows guru why its file management system messed up when   
   you were sorting files with Netscape/Mozilla off!   
      
   Several bugs in Mozilla can cause such as the nstmp, nstmp-1 entries.   
   Best bet is to remove them temporarily from Mozilla (with Mozilla off of   
   course) and then restart mozilla, if you havent lost anything, then you   
   can delete the errant files   
   If things are missing or changed in Mozilla, then quit and place the   
   files back where you got them from.   
   Check before deleting!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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