On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:54:26 -0500, "J. Weaver Jr." <j...@pospamsucksbox.com> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>jim wrote: >> >> The idea is to clone 2.01 from machine 1 (aka M1)to Machine 2 (aka M2) and >> the particulars of my last failures follow: >> >> So far, Sea Monkey 2.0.1 has defeated me on this insofar as bookmarks. >> >> Plan A >> >> 1. Uninstalled SM 2.0.1 from M2. >> 2. Reinstalled SM 2.0.1 on M2 without launching SM after install complete. >> 3. Copied entire SM profile (about 34 subdirectories) from Doc.& Set. in >> M1 to M2. >> 4. Prepped prefs.js by doing mass change of M1 name (jim) to M2 name (PC1) >> (operation detail -- Qedit reported 11 changes made, EXCEPT I did not >> change 2 entries specifically for IRC in Prefs.js where "jim" is the user >> name and those CMD entries did not refer to Doc.& Set. location) >> 5. Replaced places.sqlite on m2 with m1 copy. >> >> 6.. started SM2 on M2. >> >> Result of intended operation -- failure PLUS. >> The PLUS was that not only did I have no bookmarks transferred *but* the >> personal toolbar was also locked and I could not drag& drop items from >> the Navigation window. >> >> (The profile copy was successful since the Adblock icon now appeared on >> Personal toolbar -- and was operable -- of M2 browser and in the M2 SM >> email client, all subfolders, filters and mail were present and operable.) >> >> End initial attempt at elegant symphony. :-) >> (it should have worked -- unless SQL recognized the file as not its own >> though a little used facility of the file descriptor....maybe) >> >> Enter Plan B: >> >> 1. Export bookmarks from M1 to file (bookmarks.html) on shared folder on >> M1. >> 2. Import bookmarks to M2 (using "manage bookmarks") >> >> 3. For that session, there were 536 "objects" in bookmark manager and >> bookmarks did exist from toolbar call of bookmarks but not on Personal >> Toolbar. >> >> 4. I unset and reset "bookmarks toolbar" as personal toolbar. >> Result: Personal toolbar populated with proper bookmarks and folders. >> >> BUT >> >> When i closed and reopened SM on M2, all bookmarks had disappeared. >> >> >> (I did Plan A and Plan B complete operations several times) >> >> Any ideas? >> >> jim > >Assuming Windoze, and default installation locations: > >1. Install SM on target computer. > >2. Shut down SM on both computers _completely_. > >3. On target computer, completely delete folder "C:\Program >Files\SeaMonkey", and all its subfolders. > >4. Also on target computer, completely delete folder "C:\Documents and >Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla", and all its subfolders. > >5. Copy those same two folders, and all their subfolders, from the >source computer to the target computer. DO NOT CHANGE ANY FILES. > >6. Start SM on the target computer. > >I used this strategy to clone my desktop's SM to my laptop; I use a >standard folder synchronization program between the two machines (for >the folders indicated above) to keep 'em in line. -JW I will try that *precisely* as you state it and I hope that I get the same result that you did. Thanks, jim _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
