[Users] CM crashed and burned

[Duke Normandin]

Thanks for the detailed instructions. I've got my old standby Alpine
cooking again as backup. That sucker has never failed me. I'll give it a
shot at salvaging CM. Thx again!!

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 4:30 PM Brian Morrison via Users <
users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:35:11 -0700
> Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > See attached please
> >
>
> My original suggestion holds, make a backup of the entire .claws-mail
> directory in your $HOME to somewhere safe.
>
> Once that has been done then you can start trying to fix things, as
> others have suggested you can delete everything in your
> $HOME/.claws-mail directory, then start CM and create a new
> installation and then, after shutting CM down (this is important, don't
> manipulate files when it is running), look at the files in the newly
> created $HOME/.claws-mail directory and try replacing them gradually
> with the versions you have saved (shut CM down each time you copy an
> old file in over the new installation version). In particular the .bak
> files should be intact, but the various *rc files may have been
> corrupted. You can simply rename them by removing the .bak extension
> and that should be a good file.
>
> The intention is that you carefully preserve what you have now so that
> you can rebuild something that works again. The FAQ and wiki for Claws
> should have some information on how these files are named and what each
> one does.
>
> Good luck.
>
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>
> Brian Morrison
>
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duke