Posted by Bob on 12/06/06 20:19

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>> Bob wrote:
>>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>>> Bob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Firefox groups all shut down on the Netscape server months ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> :P
>>>>
>>>> What?! Don't think so. Been subscribed to news.mozilla.org for
>>>> sometime now to NG's
>>>> netscape.public.mozilla.wishlist, netscape.public.mozilla.browser,
>>>> netscape.public.mozilla.dom, netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
>>>>
>>>> all see alive and well...
>>>
>>> I don't know what happened. I was subscribed via Thunderbird, but
>>> then one day it would never load from the server, and for weeks after
>>> it would never load. I figured it was down. Eventually I deleted the
>>> account. What happened? How do I add it back in?
>>
>> Thx. I guess the account got corrupted on the drive in one of its log
>> files? Is that possible?
>>
>> I deleted the account and added it back in and now it works again. Thx
>> so much!
>
> Yep, but I have found all you have to do is traverse to the profile
> folder usually on Windows:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\[profile]\Application
> Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\[salt].default
>
> Go to the news server folder, this example:
> ..\News\news.mozilla.org
>
> and delete the associated .msf file, e.g.:
> netscape.public.mozilla.browser.msf

This is the file that gets corrupted sometimes, no? I delete those
things fairly regularly anyway. It seems sometimes, a ng starts acting
crazy and nothing stops that. The only thing that stops it is deleting
this .msf file. I assume it has become corrupted.
>
> Oh! You must not be running Thunderbird during this!

Surely.
>
> Then fire up Thunderbird and redownload the headers for the group. No
> recreated of account needed.

Right, I do this quite a bit. For one thing, I do not like .msf files
over 1 MB.
>
> For POP mail sometimes the index file .msf can get corrupted. The same
> procedure can fix it. I will rebuild the summery with no loss of data.
> just don't delete the file with no extension, like "Inbox" or that will
> delete all your messages!

Only one I use there is "Sent" cuz I only use Tbird for news. For mail,
I am a Eudora addict. ;)
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