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[David McGlone]

On Friday 23 October 2009 16:57:11 Davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
> I have been using Balsa mail Client in Mint7 on my desktop.  Haven't been
> able to configure the mail out feature, but that's not my main problem.
> I'm going to be traveling, so I want Balsa on my laptop (also with Mint7).
>  I installed Balsa from the repos, and then copied the ~/.balsa directory
> from the desktop into the laptop.  Also copied the ~/mail directory from
> the desktop to the laptop.  Result:  Everything seems the same except that
> clicking on Inbox on the laptop does not display any email letters.  It
> did  however (right after I copied the two aforementioned folders into the
> laptop) show the same number of messages in the inbox.  Then the number of
> messages mentioned there disappeared.
>
> Question:  HOw do I get the inbox to show up on the laptop?  did I fail to
> copy it from the desktop?  is it located somewhere else?
>
> Locate doesn't find it
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.

Set the appropriate permissions on the copied folders.
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Blessings
David M.