From: TheNewGWTC@pppmppfmpfmmmmfmmmpfmmpp.pppmppfmp   
      
   William Brown wrote:   
      
   > This concerns Windows xp and Netscape 7.2, and trying to get data from   
   > multiple profiles into one profile.   
   >   
   > A few months ago, Windows reported one of my hard drives needed   
   > checking, and I let it proceed.  The result was that some files were   
   > truncated, and I lost my Netscape functionality.  It was then that I   
   > discovered that the backup I had been doing religiously gave me the data   
   > in some strange file type, which I didn't know how to use.  No problem,   
   > I just created a new profile.  In fact, over the months I have created   
   > many profiles (eight or ten), but I now have it to the point where two   
   > of them work.   
   >   
   > My problem is that one of them has current data (I save a lot of   
   > information as email), while the other has my older data.  I tried   
   > copying some data files (car, a msf file, and car, a file) from one   
   > profile to the other, but when I use the profile I want to keep, the car   
   > folder appears in the reader, but the email in it is not there (but is   
   > there using the other profile.   
   >   
   > I tried creating a folder named archive in each profile, thinking that I   
   > could copy data into that, move it in explorer to the other profile, and   
   > drag it into the appropriate folder in that profile.  However, explorer   
   > search finds two archive files, with different extensions, in one   
   > profile, and no archive files in the other profile, although when I open   
   > the reader, an archive subfolder is present using each profile.   
   >   
   > I've munged the names of all the extra profiles I had created, with no   
   > apparent ill effect, so I will be deleting those files.   
   >   
   > How can I get all my emails from the historical profile into the current   
   > profile.  I'm almost at the point of just emailing them to myself, but   
   > there are hundreds of them, if not thousands.   
   try moving the files without the extensions.  The msf files are index   
   files and are not needed when moving files around.  These files will   
   be rebuilt upon the restart of Net.  Also, when moving files around,   
   you are doing it with Net close, right?   
      
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