BJD wrote:
Ok, this is too much. Seamonkey 2 seems to have Deleted/removed itself??
In a previous post (12/6/10), I had just upgraded to Seamonkey version 2
and lost all but one of my profiles (S.Beaulieu was kind enough to post
info on how to recover my other profiles.
Last night, 12/14/10, I clicked on the Seamonkey desktop icon and
nothing happened: I got a message saying that seamonkey.exe is not a
valid application??? Thinking it was a 'congested computer problem',I
rebooted -now the Seamonkey Icon was blank- and got the same result when
I clicked on it.
I followed the desktop shortcut & found the seamonkey.exe file was 0
bytes! (see: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bjweiss/SMfolder.jpg )
What's going on. How could Seamonkey get uninstalled or corrupted? Did
it try and automatically upgrade itself?
Can I recover from this or do I need to try a new install? Thanks in
advance for any insight on this.
...Brian
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After spending too much time searching & pondering various solutions***,
I decided to do the (WinXP) Control Panel: "Add or Remove Programs" on
Seamonkey ver 2.X.X (I thought I'd try, even though the program was not
there: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bjweiss/SMfolder.jpg )
The uninstall seemed to work, and I noticed that the Add or Remove
Programs window seemed to indicate that Seamonkey ver 1.1.7 was still there.
Since I no longer had Seamonkey Icons anywhere, I searched for the
directory where the 1.1.7 files were located (C:\Program
Files\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey) and created a shortcut to the seamonkey.exe
file. BINGO!!
Everything was there! I have 6 email profiles, many news servers in
one, etc. and they all work. (I'm glad I didn't remove 1.1.7 before
going ahead with the upgrade to 2.x.x.
I unchecked -check for new software upgrades- box in case I accidentally
click on it ... I'll be staying with ver 1.1.7 for a lllonnggg time.
Again, thanks to those who answered to give me feedback.
....Brian
*** potential solutions were:
1) rename the dozens of ver 2.x.x. moz.backup files in multiple
seamonkey sub-directories
2) Try a fresh ver 2.x.x download & install
3) just delete the program files\seamonkey directory and try step 20
4) install Opera, Outlook or even Thunderbird and try some of the above
steps...
5) and on and on and on...
.....
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