Fixing Mail Display in 7.60 Preview 4 for Windows

Fixing Mail Display in 7.60 Preview 4 for Windows

Due to an error in the Windows installer, the wrong CSS files are used for styling message display. This problem does not affect the Unix installer. To fix this issue, do the following:

1) Close Opera
2) Find your Opera installation folder (C:\Program Files\Opera 7.60 Beta\ by default)
3) Open the styles sub-directory
4a) If the filenames have .css extensions:
- Rename mime.css to mime.css.bak and mimehead.css to mimehead.css.bak
- Rename mime7.css to mime.css and mimehead7.css to mimehead.css
4b) If the filenames have no extensions:
- Rename mime to mime.bak and mimehead to mimehead.bak
- Rename mime7 to mime and mimehead7 to mimehead
5) Restart Opera

Opera Mail messages should now display correctly.

Yay.

what happened to step 2? oO

thanks! those RSS feeds with the entire header info was getting really bothersome. =)

Files With No Extensions?

I tried renaming file as mentioned here:

4b) If the filenames have no extensions:
- Rename mime to mime.bak and mimehead to mimehead.bak
- Rename mime7 to mime and mimehead7 to mimehead

However, I am not allowed to change mimehead7 to mimehead as there is already a mimehead file in styles. Ditto with changing mime to mime.bak

see my posting in http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=74514

hope this helps

Thanks Isolde, But-----!

Thanks Isolde. I installed the .zip that was posted on that same thread into the styles folder and it worked. I need to poke around a little more as I did not find an installation folder for Opera and have never done .ini changes. I have a limited knowledge of those sorts of things. Thanks anyway. --- Norman Hunter

Re: Fix Mail Display in 7.60 Preview 4 for Windows

Originally posted by Junyor
Due to an error in the Windows installer, the wrong CSS files are used for styling message display. This problem does not affect the Unix installer. To fix this issue, do the following:

1) Close Opera
2) Find your Opera installation folder (C:\Program Files\Opera 7.60 Beta\ by default)
3) Open the styles sub-directory
4a) If the filenames have .css extensions:
- Rename mime.css to mime.css.bak and mimehead.css to mimehead.css.bak
- Rename mime7.css to mime.css and mimehead7.css to mimehead.css
4b) If the filenames have no extensions:
- Rename mime to mime.bak and mimehead to mimehead.bak
- Rename mime7 to mime and mimehead7 to mimehead
5) Restart Opera

Opera Mail messages should now display correctly.

Is this method any better than just replacing mime.css with an old copy? It seems to work fine, am I losing any functionality?

I made the changes Junyor referenced above, it took care of the problem.

Since trying out the 7.60 Technical Previews (3 and now 4), it has yet to crash.

Re: Re: Fix Mail Display in 7.60 Preview 4 for Windows

Originally posted by chaimav
Is this method any better than just replacing mime.css with an old copy? It seems to work fine, am I losing any functionality?

I installed your zipped mime file and it fixed everything (and it was really easy) as far as I can tell. I seemed to have problems changing file names as suggested in this thread. I was probably not doing something right.

The problem you had was you didn't do the prior step correctly - you probably tried to copy mime to mime.bak instead of rename it. No big deal.

I don't know if anyone can help me - or if this is the right thread to post this...

I do not find my mail... I have tried to rename all mime and mimehead, that didn't work. I have tried to replace the folder style with the style from p3, but that didn't work. When I go to view- toolbars - customize toolbars... the box to check/uncheck mail is grey...

I want to uninstall p4, but I don't find any uninstaller. I didn't find it in my controlpanel either. (Opera 7.6 p3 was there)

How do I cancel the p4 and install it as a new install?

(I believe I may have done something wrong in the stylefolder in the beginning, and want to start over... to remove p4 and install all over...)

P4 should have gone to it`s own folder Opera 7.60 Beta

your mail should still be in your previos verion of Opera


your styles have nothing to do with finding your mail or uninstall or installing Opera

you can manually delete the Opera 7.60 Beta folder making sure you save anything important

reinstall P4 and pay attention when it asks where you want to install this version of Opera and in this case 7.60 Beta

Originally posted by Junyor
7364c is now up to fix the installer issues.

Great! Looks like it worked.