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[kkelly106]

Netscape 7.0 on MAC OS--opening archived .slt files takes forever. Furthermore, they now freeze up when trying to open them in Netscape. Is there a faster way? Can they be opened as text files somehow? Why are they freezing up after a minute or two?

Definitely not computer savvy,
Kathy

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

[Fulvio]

Beats me. But, I do not have a Mac. Do you mean that are storing in non-default directories unused .slt folders, and then you can't use them?
Opening them in Netscape? Why? I do not understand what you are trying to do. Please explain.

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[kkelly106]

Fulvio,

Thanks for your reply. All I know is that all emails are continually saved to a file on the hard drive in a folder called "mail". In this folder is a subfolder with an .slt extension that contains files called "trash", "sent", etc. When I doubleclick on these they are opened in Netscape but take forever, even though they appear to be text files. Am I making any sense? I'm not a MAC user either.

Kathy

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

[kkelly106]

Fulvio,

PS I am trying to open these files so that I can copy some old emails--particularly the trash file.

Kathy

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

[Fulvio]

[kkelly106]

Fulvio,

No right click on a MAC mouse!! I don't know how to open using a selected program, such as a text editor, on MAC

Thanks,
Kathy

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

[akbash]

kkelly106: I gather by the term "archived" you simply mean your standard, unaltered mail files, not some copy you made last Christmas and burned to CD. By the way these are not the same thing as the *.slt directories. I don't know why this operation would be slow on your, errr, whoever's, machine this is. Fragmented hard disk? Old, clunky Mac? Chocolate milk shorting out the motherboard?

I can think of one possibility which could be Netscape's fault. Get Info on one of the mail files. Is it HUGE? Have you ever compacted it? Restating Fulvio's earlier post, Netscape doesn't actually delete an email message when the message is moved to the Trash, even after the Trash is emptied. There's no reason you'd know this unless you'd "read the manual," but one should periodically compact one's mail folders. This is the operation which actually destroys deleted messages, reclaims the space, and reorganizes the mail folders to be more efficient.

Select any folder in one of your email accounts (assuming you have more than one), and File Menu -> Compact Folders. The status bar at the bottom of the window will indicate how it's coming along. If this is your problem, I expect it'll take a while. Be certain to give it time to finish. There was a bug in older builds of Netscape (including 7.0) that caused it to leave duplicate copies of your mail files lying around should you become impatient and repeat the Compact command before it had completed on its own.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040704 Firefox/0.8.0+

[Fulvio]