[sylpheed:33195] Re: Slypheed Data Folder in Windows and Linux

[mike]

Hi HBB

I had a couple of minutes, so I did the following:

1. installed sylpheed for windoze in a virtual xp-machine (NTFS formatted)
2. copied over a pop3 mailbox folder (my only pop mailbox) from my linux
installation to the appropriate location in windoze

Result: things seem to work flawlessly - I can see all mails, work with them
- it even would display the messages I colorized using the correct color. A
'.sylpheed_cache' file is created in linux as well along with a
'.sylpheed_mark' file in each subfolder of the mailbox. 

My guess would also be permissions in linux somehow or other. Your USB device
should get mounted by your user, not root.

Maybe this helps
mike


On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:48:56 +0300
HBB <hubarcak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello David,
> 
> I can see all the files in the explorer of Linux. The preview of files also appear when the mouse is moved over them. 
> 
> The reason may be that Linux version of Sylpheed can not resolve the file ".sylpheed_cache" which is created in windows.
> 
> Thank you for response
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> HBB
> 
> 
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:39:23 +0100
> DavidBB <mailing at blamire-brown.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Apologies for a slow reply, but I wonder if the issue could be that NTFS
> > support in Linux is sometimes not very good. I wonder if it is worth
> > checking whether Linux sees any strange ownership permissions on the files.
> > Can you see them if you browse the file system as root?
> > 
> > DBB
> > 
> > 2009/8/22 HBB <hubarcak at gmail.com>
> > 
> > > Dear mike
> > > Dear John
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for your quick response.
> > >
> > > In my previous post, I wrote the path of data folder as wrong accidentally.
> > > Sorry for this. The correct ones are
> > > "/Media/Portable/Settings/Programs/Sylpheed" in Linux and
> > > "P:\Settings\Programs\Sylpheed" in windows.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the correct one does not work in Linux. I see only folders
> > > and subfolders. I can not see the files... Since the Sylpheed shows the
> > > folders correctly, I am sure that there is no mistake about writing the
> > > config directory.
> > >
> > > Mike, as you expected, I am trying to see my mails in a portable disk both
> > > in windows and in Linux.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > HBB
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:13:25 +0200
> > > mike <mykey at mykey.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:06:53 +0300
> > > > HBB <hubarcak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > In linux (Pardus), my same data files are in
> > > "/Media/Portable/Settings/Slypheed". When I run above command line in Linux,
> > > I can see only the mail folders such as inbox, draft, ... etc. but not
> > > individual mails (files).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > my guess is more the correct path - it should be:
> > > > sylpheed --configdir /Media/Portable/Programs/Sylpheed
> > > >
> > > > assuming you want to be able to deal with the same mails from both
> > > systems -
> > > > I am not sure if sylpheed can do that - I don't use windoze for quite
> > > some
> > > > time any longer
> > > >
> > > > best
> > > > mike
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > HBB <hubarcak at gmail.com>
> > >
> 
> 
> --
> HBB <hubarcak at gmail.com>