SeaMonkey: Read messages appearing as Unread?

Strange behaviour in the Mail and Newsgroups section.

Two of my NGs show that they have unread messages in them (Number in
bold to right of their name in the folders pane). When I click on the
NG the list of topics refreshes and the numbers disappear. However after
a few minutes they come back! They've been increasing slightly also.

These two NGs have had filters running on them so I've deleted the
filters and restarted....no change.

I've tried unsubscribing and resubscribing to them....no change.

Has anyone seen this behaviour before and is there a way to stop it
happening?

TIA

dino

dino wrote:
> Strange behaviour in the Mail and Newsgroups section.
>
> Two of my NGs show that they have unread messages in them (Number in
> bold to right of their name in the folders pane). When I click on the
> NG the list of topics refreshes and the numbers disappear. However after
> a few minutes they come back! They've been increasing slightly also.
>
> These two NGs have had filters running on them so I've deleted the
> filters and restarted....no change.
>
> I've tried unsubscribing and resubscribing to them....no change.
>
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before and is there a way to stop it
> happening?
>
> TIA

close the program, then using your file manager, locate teh news
section of your TB profile. Once found, you will find some *.msf
files. Delete them. Now, restart TB, click on those newsgroups, and
you will be asked to download the messages again. Does everything work
now?

wrote:

> close the program, then using your file manager, locate teh news
> section of your TB profile. Once found, you will find some *.msf
> files. Delete them. Now, restart TB, click on those newsgroups, and
> you will be asked to download the messages again. Does everything work
> now?
>

TB = Thunderbird?

If so then my query was about SeaMonkey. I tried your method above
anyway but couldn't find a profile. I also searched for msf files but
couldn't find any on my C drive at all.

Any other suggestions?

dino wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > close the program, then using your file manager, locate teh news
> > section of your TB profile. Once found, you will find some *.msf
> > files. Delete them. Now, restart TB, click on those newsgroups, and
> > you will be asked to download the messages again. Does everything work
> > now?
> >
>
> TB = Thunderbird?
>
> If so then my query was about SeaMonkey. I tried your method above
> anyway but couldn't find a profile. I also searched for msf files but
> couldn't find any on my C drive at all.
>
> Any other suggestions?

Ooops, my mistake. I meant SM, and not TB.

The profile is hidden so you have to unhide window files, and you can
do that by reading this:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ddenfiles.mspx

also, to locate your profile, you can read this:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seam...files_profiles

wrote:

> Ooops, my mistake. I meant SM, and not TB.

No problem

> The profile is hidden so you have to unhide window files, and you can
> do that by reading this:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ddenfiles.mspx
>
> also, to locate your profile, you can read this:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seam...files_profiles
>
I already had hidden files set to show but for some reason Search wasn't
picking it up. Anyway your pointer found it for me and it appears to
have worked. Thanks for that.

I don't suppose you have any idea what caused it to happen in the first
place?

dino wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > Ooops, my mistake. I meant SM, and not TB.
>
> No problem
>
> > The profile is hidden so you have to unhide window files, and you can
> > do that by reading this:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ddenfiles.mspx
> >
> > also, to locate your profile, you can read this:
> > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seam...files_profiles
> >
> I already had hidden files set to show but for some reason Search wasn't
> picking it up. Anyway your pointer found it for me and it appears to
> have worked. Thanks for that.
>
> I don't suppose you have any idea what caused it to happen in the first
> place?

the *.msf files are indexing files. They tell the program which way
things are sorted, which ones are labelled, which ones are flagged, and
other things. Every once in a while, this file can become corrupted.
How and why, nobody really knows. Deleting them seems to work.