Jim, Ramona, Westside and all ~ Thanks for all your suggestions, probing and diligence with this issue. Again, I am learning a bunch....
Westside, In the process of exploring why the email were not showing, I looked at the contents. I did that by "opening" it in Wordpad. Then...
Well, it's late and I'm tired but I understand this most recent work around so I succumb to the temptation to try it. Duh, it's a text file -...
Yes I wanted global settings so I wouldn't have duplicate folders showing up. As I understand the Mozilla file structure better I sense ther's a...
Thanks for your perservence in this. Looked at the save Inbox that is in My documents. Full of content as described earlier. Copied/pasted it...
Hi Ramona, Copied it out of Local Folder and into Default>isp folder then opened to default profile (instead of Scotts). Old Inbox there but...
I think that's what I've been doing - copying only 'old inbox' out of my archived Local File and pasting it into my Mail folder. No msf file -...
Thanks, Don for the clarification. That helps flesh out some of the issues. Reference link shows a fix for the 512 byte issue. On stabilty:...
Surferdude ~ Are you saying there's enough risk to converting to make up for the gains in stability and security? I've had lots of trouble with...
Ramona & Westside ~ It's 'senior moments' that I have during installs and such that are the cause of so much of my learning. Changing it to...
Ramona ~ Awesome. Slow and patiently following directions and it works like a charm. :D Q: that inbox that I couldn't read yesterday but...
Great links, Thanks. The Elder Geek wrote (in the first link): "NTFS allows the use of NTFS Permissions. It's much more difficult to...
Thanks Ramona. I was hesitant to delete program files directly. I don't do anything with the folders in documents and settings? Also, I...
Long story short I messed up my install of Tbird (downloaded mail before I had checked box to leave mail on server and somewhere in process of...
I have just clean installed WinXP Home onto a newly formatted and partitioned HD. I have two partitions - a 9GB C: for OS and a few programs & a...
Had a little time this am and begain tinkering with Format and Fdisk. Ended up going in midday. ;) I used the disk I downloaded from...
Thanks again, Matt. I've posted so much, it seems, about everything I'm doing (since I seem to always be up against some mistake I've made or...
Ok, now it's not going so well... As it was copying files and running set up it stopped, saying "file 'asms on Win XP Home SP2 CD (my OEM) is...
Well, I'm learning - the hard way - and I think I fixed that problem. :o I destroyed and remade partition then merged it with C:. It wanted...
Hey, I ran the defragmenter and it recognizes the partition/drive but labels it Logical drive without a letter. Showed it 99% free. Scott
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