migrating profiles to a certain location

[seamon2]

Hi,
I have to migrate a lot of seamonkey- userprofiles and want to save them 
in a certain location.
The current 1.1.8 - profiles of the windows-users are all located on 
their homedrive, lets say h:\seamonkeyprofile, because they use a 
special registry.dat in their %appdata%\mozilla.

This makes it easy to generate a preconfigured profile for new users.

Does anybody know to force seamonkey 2 to create the new migrated 
profile on a preconfigured location?


I tried to edit profiles.ini and the \greprefs\all.js  in the 
programmfolder but whithout success.


Another question: What does seamonkey check before starting the 
migration? Why does the cmdlineargument "-migrate" not always start the 
migration?


all.js Line 969 ff:
pref("profile.confirm_automigration",true);
// profile.migration_behavior determines how the profiles root is set
// 0 - use NS_APP_USER_PROFILES_ROOT_DIR
// 1 - create one based on the NS4.x profile root
// 2 - use, if not empty, profile.migration_directory otherwise same as 0
pref("profile.migration_behavior",0);
pref("profile.migration_directory", "");

Thanks for tips or useful links,
Gerd
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Re: migrating profiles to a certain location

[Jens Hatlak]

seam...@taz.de wrote:

Does anybody know to force seamonkey 2 to create the new migrated
profile on a preconfigured location?


You could modify profiles.ini directly to specify an absolute path for 
the new profile. I don't know whether SM will create the path upon 
migration so you might want to do that yourself in advance.



Another question: What does seamonkey check before starting the
migration? Why does the cmdlineargument "-migrate" not always start the
migration?


Because it's wrong, -migration is correct and should work in combination 
with -P .


HTH

Jens

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SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker 
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Re: migrating profiles to a certain location

[seamon2]

Jens Hatlak schrieb:

seam...@taz.de wrote:

Does anybody know to force seamonkey 2 to create the new migrated
profile on a preconfigured location?


You could modify profiles.ini directly to specify an absolute path for
the new profile. I don't know whether SM will create the path upon
migration so you might want to do that yourself in advance.
Yes, thats what I did in advance, but the migration did not always start 
automatically. But read on.

Another question: What does seamonkey check before starting the
migration? Why does the cmdlineargument "-migrate" not always start the
migration?


Because it's wrong, -migration is correct and should work in combination
with -P .
The typo - error  was only in my mail; -migration should also work 
without -P 



HTH

Jens


But perhaps editing the \greprefs\all.js  in the programmfolder the 
right way did the trick!? (I forgot to use double backslashes"\\")


At least the first test was succesful, I'll keep the group informed if 
it works with all users.


modified all.js:

pref("profile.confirm_automigration",true);
// profile.migration_behavior determines how the profiles root is set
// 0 - use NS_APP_USER_PROFILES_ROOT_DIR
// 1 - create one based on the NS4.x profile root
// 2 - use, if not empty, profile.migration_directory otherwise same as 0
pref("profile.migration_behavior",2);
  ^
pref("profile.migration_directory", "\\h:\\seamonkeyprofile");
 
greetings,
gerd
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Re: migrating profiles to a certain location

[therube]

"Import multiple SM1.xprofiles to SM2 successfully"
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1569105
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