Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > >> Hartmut Figge wrote: >> > > >>> No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the >>> old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old >>> profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. >>> >> This is what I did the other day when I renamed .mozilla to >> .mozilla.old. Seamonkey did NOT crash when I did that. >> > > Fine. No crash before ... > > >> It also didn't after I transfered my emails and didn't for a little >> bit after I transfered the password files. >> > > ... you touched the profile ... > > >>> Sounds like the prefs.js is corrupt after editing. Which editor did you >>> use? And surely SM was closed while editing, hm? ;) >>> >> Actually, I used about:config to edit it. I did restart Seamonkey tho >> it shouldn't be necessary. My old passwords did show up then tho. >> Again, that site worked the first couple times. >> > > ... but that could mean that SM with the unchanged profile could have > crashed also if only you had tried long enough. > > Unlikely, though, because you seem the only one with this specific crash. > > Now i have looked in the former thread and found > > |After some testing, it is when I copy the pref.js > |file that the emails disappear again. > > and i remembered you difficulties with emails. Did you really copy the > prefs.js from your old profile, edited it and use it now? Shudder. *g* >
I did at one point but then I removed the profile and started over again. What I do is this. I make a copy of my .mozilla directory to another hard drive for extra protection. Then I rename, start fresh and do whatever. I may delete the "clean" profile a dozen times until I get things sorted. I would bet I deleted the "clean" profile a dozen times while trying several different things to get that site to load without crashing. With the last "clean" profile, I only copied the emails, password files, bookmarks then edited the prefs.js file to point to the new "clean" profile. I figured out that copying the prefs.js file was the problem so I stopped copying that. I did change some preferences under the Edit menu. I just wonder if one of those triggers something that is somewhat unique to me. I am weird according to some. I may have some setting that no one else uses. > >>> And i guess that something went wrong with editing the prefs.js. *g* >>> >> This is the line that i changed: >> >> wallet.SchemaValueFileName >> >> And I changed it to: >> >> 60988542.s >> > > Mhm. This pref is for form history and should point to number.w. The > pref for passwords is signon.SignonFileName and points to number.s. Form > history pointing to number.s is, eh, quite unusual. ;) > > >> Which is the name of the file that contains my password info. >> > > number.s contains password info, that's correct, but the corresponding > pref is signon.SignonFileName and not wallet.SchemaValueFileName. > Well, according to a how to, that was the correct file and it did load my passwords as soon as I pointed it to that file. I found that by looking at about:config and finding the new password file it generated while making the clean profile. I then replaced the location to point to my old file. I may try that in a bit tho just in case. I still have my old .mozilla backups. > >> Is there a way to "export" then import my password info? I can't find >> one other than the way I did it. >> > > Moving to a new profile isn't too hard. Years ago i had done so > sometimes, mostly, to get get rid of a corrupted prefs.js. E.g. at the > time as i tried sudo. *g* > > Never use the old prefs.js or parts of it. I don't like changing prefs > with about:config and prefer user_pref in the user.js. There i can > comment and i know later what i had done. And i can use the user.js in a > new profile. > I need to research user.js. I have never heard of that one. > And for number.s and number.w, well, i had edited prefs.js, naturally > after making a backup. > > >>> Did i mention already that you should use a testprofile? >>> >> I have done that on windoze before. It does work. I just pulled out >> enough hair this week. o_O >> > > Reminds me on my migration to xorg 1.5. *g* > > Hartmut > > Xorg is why I have very little hair right now. I went back to the OLD xorg and did -hal to boot. I masked the new xorg for now. Dale :-) :-) P. S. About to try the updated Seamonkey. < Dale crosses fingers, toes and whatever else he can cross >
