J
John Corliss
My thanks to "Rickles" in the netscape.mozilla.user.win32 newsgroup
for posting this solution and my thanks to Chris Ilias (Mozilla
Champion Netscape/Mozilla Links
<http://ilias.ca> *POSTING GUIDELINES*
<http://mozillachampions.mozdev.org/guidelines.html>) for coming up
with it! (note: for the sake of clarity, I've made some very minor
changes to Rickles' post.)
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There is a minor variation in the use of the steps that Holger Metzger
gave us so long ago to remove 'Local Folders' (for those of us who
don't want/need them.) What it boils down to is; you're not removing
*every* reference from the prefs.js file; you are ultimately
re-pointing one setting to your existing account of choice and losing
the rest. I have just done this one my system, and it works. I have
reprinted his solution here:
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Okay, I figured it out. It's a little more tricky than before, which I
suspect is due to multiple identity support.
- go through your account settings and make sure no other accounts are
pointing to your local folders.
[copies & folders -> drafts, sent, templates]
- Close Mozilla, and backup your prefs.js
- Delete the "Local Folders" folder in your "C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\username\sivckilt.slt\Mail" folder (where
username is your user name.)
- Open your prefs.js and find out which server number local folders is
assigned to. (probably #2)
- Using #2 as an example, delete all the corresponding lines that
begin with:
user_pref("mail.server.server2....
- Using a search tool to search the prefs.js, search for "server2"
(remember 2 is just an example here), you'll find which /account/
number is assigned to that server (to make sure, there should be no id
assigned to that account.) Delete that pref line, and remember the
account number.
- next is the line:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts"
Do not delete that line, but remove the section that refers to the
account number of your local folders. For instance, if your local
folders is account2:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts","account1,account2,account3,account4");
will be changed to:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account3,account4");
- next look for the line:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2");
Change the server number on that to one of the other servers numbers
already set up.
- save and close your prefs.js
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Since any new account additions cause Local Folders to be re-added
anyway, the elimination of them now doesn't hurt anything. If you feel
the need to use them in the future, then simply add another mail
account or newsgroup, and viola, LF is back. Change your folder
settings as you see fit. This makes it a user's individual choice,
which is what (I feel) the argument was all along. Choice had been
taken away. Hats off to Chris for the help.
_______________________________________________________
Took a lot of pissing and moaning from me to get this and I hope
somebody can use it. I did, and it works perfectly.
for posting this solution and my thanks to Chris Ilias (Mozilla
Champion Netscape/Mozilla Links
<http://ilias.ca> *POSTING GUIDELINES*
<http://mozillachampions.mozdev.org/guidelines.html>) for coming up
with it! (note: for the sake of clarity, I've made some very minor
changes to Rickles' post.)
_______________________________________________________
There is a minor variation in the use of the steps that Holger Metzger
gave us so long ago to remove 'Local Folders' (for those of us who
don't want/need them.) What it boils down to is; you're not removing
*every* reference from the prefs.js file; you are ultimately
re-pointing one setting to your existing account of choice and losing
the rest. I have just done this one my system, and it works. I have
reprinted his solution here:
******************************
Okay, I figured it out. It's a little more tricky than before, which I
suspect is due to multiple identity support.
- go through your account settings and make sure no other accounts are
pointing to your local folders.
[copies & folders -> drafts, sent, templates]
- Close Mozilla, and backup your prefs.js
- Delete the "Local Folders" folder in your "C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\username\sivckilt.slt\Mail" folder (where
username is your user name.)
- Open your prefs.js and find out which server number local folders is
assigned to. (probably #2)
- Using #2 as an example, delete all the corresponding lines that
begin with:
user_pref("mail.server.server2....
- Using a search tool to search the prefs.js, search for "server2"
(remember 2 is just an example here), you'll find which /account/
number is assigned to that server (to make sure, there should be no id
assigned to that account.) Delete that pref line, and remember the
account number.
- next is the line:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts"
Do not delete that line, but remove the section that refers to the
account number of your local folders. For instance, if your local
folders is account2:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts","account1,account2,account3,account4");
will be changed to:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account3,account4");
- next look for the line:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2");
Change the server number on that to one of the other servers numbers
already set up.
- save and close your prefs.js
******************************
Since any new account additions cause Local Folders to be re-added
anyway, the elimination of them now doesn't hurt anything. If you feel
the need to use them in the future, then simply add another mail
account or newsgroup, and viola, LF is back. Change your folder
settings as you see fit. This makes it a user's individual choice,
which is what (I feel) the argument was all along. Choice had been
taken away. Hats off to Chris for the help.
_______________________________________________________
Took a lot of pissing and moaning from me to get this and I hope
somebody can use it. I did, and it works perfectly.
If you have this trouble with future versions, maybe you
Christopher Jahn