241930 - Whole entire Mail Account disappeared

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193638

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

Address book intact.  Local folders intact.  But my whole mail account
disappeared.  I don't know why, but Mozilla did crash once today while I was
surfing.  I had this problem once before with with Mozilla 1.6.  My solution
then was to upgrade to 1.7 It seemed to disappeared.  It's back!

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Crash?
2.Mail account gone.
3.

Actual Results:  
I don't know how to intentionally crash Mozilla.

Expected Results:  
Left my e-mail intact.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Dupe of bug 132517?

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

For restoring see http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/troubleshooting/#restore-mail
and/or try to rename "prefs.bak" to "prefs.js" in your profile.

If you don't have any clues how to reproduce it, please resolve this bug as dupe
of Bug 193749.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Dupe of bug 132517?
Hmm ... this was fixed with 1.7a.

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

Due to the crash your prefs.js was corrupted/erased.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193638 ***