303235 - At the last opening of my mail-box, i'd lost all my preferences and all the mails i kept.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Patrice LE TURCQ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

When opening mozilla (with GOOGLE), i' have lost all my preferences and it was
the same ffor my mail-box and it was asked me to reinstall my profil for the mail.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I first open internet, using GOOGLE for first page.
I noticed that all my preferences had disapeared.
2. Then I went to the mail-box, and a new one opened which was totaly clear of
all the mails (including very important datas I used to keep there.
3. I've been asked to re-create a profile in a new box.

Actual Results:  
I re-create a new profile and then i've been asked for a "mot de passe"
corresponding to the POP server.

Expected Results:  
As I don't remember any "mot de passe" for POP server, I quitted.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Errm, I'm not sure what this is to do with exactly, but its not address book.

Comment 2

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Could it be that you
a) used Mozilla as another Windows user than before
b) did not have the drive holding your Mozilla profile connected to your computer
c) deleted some files in MyDocuments (your Windows profile folder)

The reason why I ask is because from what I understand it seems as if your whole
Mozilla profile disappeared, not just the mail preferences. If that is the case,
then it might either be because you are now using another Mozilla profile than
before (see a) or because the original profile cannot be found any more (see b,
or it might actually be data loss).

Maybe you could try searching for your profile on your harddisk(s). Try
searching for *.slt as folder name.

Comment 3

[Cédric "chewey" Menge]

WFM. It could have been a case of the "surviving parent.lock", which resulted in starting with a new, blank profile. Haven't seen this issue in a long time.