I have used MozBackup for quite a while but never needed to restore any backups (just lucky I guess)! However, today I needed to transfer my profiles to another drive so I first tried to simply copy them - this failed because the system reported the destination drive not ready (or something like that!) So, I investigated and the problem was in the Mail | Local Folders.
So then I tried to copy them by creating a MozBackup, opening the resultant file with 7z, and extracting the files to the new location! That worked a treat (thank you MozBackup) but I noticed that some of the files weren't copied! Is this intentional, and the extra files were just that, extra, or has an error occurred? I am afraid to try the copied profile for fear that there is something wrong that won't appear for awhile and I may lose something/everything!
Can someone help me understand what is going on? Thanks in advance for your help!
Sparky
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Hello:
I have used MozBackup for quite a while but never needed to restore any backups (just lucky I guess)! However, today I needed to transfer my profiles to another drive so I first tried to simply copy them - this failed because the system reported the destination drive not ready (or something like that!) So, I investigated and the problem was in the Mail | Local Folders.
So then I tried to copy them by creating a MozBackup, opening the resultant file with 7z, and extracting the files to the new location! That worked a treat (thank you MozBackup) but I noticed that some of the files weren't copied! Is this intentional, and the extra files were just that, extra, or has an error occurred? I am afraid to try the copied profile for fear that there is something wrong that won't appear for awhile and I may lose something/everything!
Can someone help me understand what is going on? Thanks in advance for your help!
Sparky