Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 3:22 pm, mycal62 wrote: hi , did you try looking in : file:/usr/local/netscape/defaults/profile Only thing I could find. No, I have to admit I didn't. I expected the profiles to be in home directories or root for the installation. You could be right, this may be what I was looking for. what is the exact problem you are having? I've just gone through a bit of a pain to get my netscape 7 working properly after a new install. I had to create a new profile , delete the default profile and rename the new one to default to make it work. it was doing a lot of weird stuff, but now all works perfect, and I have all the old bookmarks, and messages and such. What I was really trying to do was to separate the Netscape profile from the Mozilla one. There is a comment somewhere on the Netscape pages that they should not be allowed to share a profile, but I can't remember how I got to the download page (some link) but I certainly did not see that before I installed. Anyway, I had hoped that by separating them I could control them. The main problem is with plugins, though there are print issues too. I seem to be incapable of getting Moz, Galeon and N7 all working correctly. At any time I have one that works for the most part, and the other two broken. Any improvement in one of the others seems to break the first one. I think I'll risk getting rid of N7 first, then if necessary I'll reinstall Moz and Galeon and start the whole round of plugins over again. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:51 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne just a thought here that might work mv .mozilla to mozilla (removing the leading dot) so you don't lose anything. Then start NS7 first. Since it won't have a . file to access it will have to create it's own. Then start mozilla it should read the .netscape7 file and import the profile to itself. The only thing left afterwords will be to cp your plugins and bookmarks from the old file to the new. (cp it not mv it mozilla can be real determined at times to not use foreign bookmarks.) That might help. It sounds real feeble - I've had such problems with Moz and plugins that I would like to remove it and re-install, possible with 1.2, but I do like the side-panel navigation and a few other things, so I'd like to get N7 working properly first in case I get into plugin hell again with the re-install. It's not worth a huge amount of trouble, but I do like to know how things are working, and I'm unhappy that N7 is putting things somewhere wierd. If I can get Moz right I'll probably take N7 off. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles
hi , did you try looking in : file:/usr/local/netscape/defaults/profile Only thing I could find. what is the exact problem you are having? I've just gone through a bit of a pain to get my netscape 7 working properly after a new install. I had to create a new profile , delete the default profile and rename the new one to default to make it work. it was doing a lot of weird stuff, but now all works perfect, and I have all the old bookmarks, and messages and such. Mike McNeese Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles
I installed Netscape 7 as root, creating a profile in the process. If I navigate to the appropriate directory to start Nscp7 as root I get the profile manager and can access that profile. If I start Nscp7 as a user it shares my Mozilla profile. This has caused me problems. Trouble is, I can't find where the root Nscp7 profile is stored. I presume if I can find it I can, as root, copy it to my own home directory (?) and change permissions, but although there are .netscape and .netscape6 directories they do not appear to contain the profiles. Can anyone help, please? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles
Anne just a thought here that might work mv .mozilla to mozilla (removing the leading dot) so you don't lose anything. Then start NS7 first. Since it won't have a . file to access it will have to create it's own. Then start mozilla it should read the .netscape7 file and import the profile to itself. The only thing left afterwords will be to cp your plugins and bookmarks from the old file to the new. (cp it not mv it mozilla can be real determined at times to not use foreign bookmarks.) James On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:26, Anne Wilson wrote: I installed Netscape 7 as root, creating a profile in the process. If I navigate to the appropriate directory to start Nscp7 as root I get the profile manager and can access that profile. If I start Nscp7 as a user it shares my Mozilla profile. This has caused me problems. Trouble is, I can't find where the root Nscp7 profile is stored. I presume if I can find it I can, as root, copy it to my own home directory (?) and change permissions, but although there are .netscape and .netscape6 directories they do not appear to contain the profiles. Can anyone help, please? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
