From: not@home.net   
      
   gwtc wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   I tried deleting a few, then moving the good files from the other   
   profile, without the .msf files, but it still doesn't work.  When I look   
   in explorer, the files are there, and the headings appear in netscape,   
   but there are no messages.   
      
   Yes, I do shut down netscape before moving files.   
      
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