From: sashathor@earthlink.net   
      
   Sorry to have wasted your time, and I do appreciate your attempts to   
   help, but nothing seems to work.   
      
   1.	I deleted ALL .msf files, for sashathor, sashatwo and   
   sashathree@earthlink.net.   
      
   2.	I then went into folders where I had material stored (about 15 of   
   them) and deleted all .msf files (to Trash I assumed, in all cases).   
      
   3. 	Oh yes, I was out of NS 7.2 at the time, and into the Mac HD.   
      
   4.	I them rebooted the computer, brought up NS and after a bit it   
   brought up mail through July 27 (same as before).   
      
   5.	Incidentally, it has been my practice to move all  mail to a   
   separately named Inbox when over several thousand messages (Such as   
   "Inbox 5-17-07"), leaving just palin old "Inbox" for new mail.   
      
   6.	Anyhoo, after reaching July 27 (there must be more mail stilon the   
   server), I hit the "Get Msgs" tab . . . and my familiar old error message.   
      
   7.  I guess I give up, until maybe the guru at the Traverse City   
   Computer Haus (where I bought the machine) can tell me how to COMPLETELY   
   delete all traces of this version, so I can start over.  (Even then I am   
   not condident -- I have 3 other Macs (incl this laptop) and never had   
   anything like this sort of trouble.  When "hung" in a pgm (not the   
   problem here), there is a "Force Quit" option available in several   
   places, so I don't get the blue screen of PC death.   
      
   Again, many many thanks for your hang-in-there efforts.   
      
   hugh (a retired perfesser whose first 'puter was a TRS 80 -- the old   
   "expansion interface" model w/ all of 48k RAM -- boy did we learn to   
   write tight programs!)   
      
      
   Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:   
   > the *.msf files do not contain the messages.  Its the files without the   
   > extensions which contain messages. Files such as inbox, drafts, sent,   
   > and so forth.  *.msf files contain info about which way things are   
   > sorted, whats been labelled, tagged, flagged, and so forth. When you   
   > remove the .msf files, then those things are moved.  .msf files are   
   > contained in the Mail folders, AND in the News folders.   
   >   
   > You can, if you want, delete all the .msf files if you want.  Do this   
   > with the program closed.  The file(s) will be recreated when restarted.   
   >   
   > A Tip: To find the location of your current profile: Click on Edit, Mail   
   > & Newsgroups Account Settings, select the account, and under Server   
   > Settings, near the bottom right, is something called Local Directory.   
   > Look at that and it will tell you the location of that account, and it   
   > will tell you the approximate location of your current profile.   
   >   
      
      
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