Interviewed by CNN on 04/09/2012 13:01, Richard Owlett told the world: > My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. > In the future, I hope to have Debian (Squeeze?) on one machine. > > Other than backing up my profiles, is there any caution > about such a jump in revision levels (I do not use _ANY_ > extensions/add-ons)?
I don't think it will be any problem. The last (slight) profile format change was from 2.0 to 2.1, I think. Since you are already at 2.3, there shouldn't be any problem. > I have a collection of old drives with profiles (emails > in/out and bookmarks) dating as far back as Netscape 4.(0?). > Assuming I succeed in moving them to a USB drive, are there > tools for importing that information into a new profile? For e-mails, it's just a matter of dropping the folders in the right place in the profile. Since we are talking about several profiles, let me suggest a procedure to prepare empty folders for that. 0. Locate your current profile folder. 1. In your current Seamonkey copy, create a dummy mail folder for each profile you wish to import. Example: if you want to import a profile you think of as "My old Netscape 4 profile," create a mail folder named "Netscape 4" or something similar. (This folder won't be used for much, unless you wish to move stuff here later) 2. Create a dummy subfolder inside thos folders. Use some sort of random name that you are SURE that you have never used before. (This subfolder is being created just so SM has a ready made file folder -- named, in the case of the example above, "Netscape 4.sbd" -- created to receive the old profile mail folders later. The name of the subfolder is not important and it may be deleted at the end of the procedure). 3. Close all instances of Seamonkey. 4. Copy your old profile's mail folder to the "Netscape 4.sbd" (or equivalent) folder. Repeat procedure for each folder you desire to import. 5. Open Seamonkey and look at your mail folders. For bookmarks, there's the "Import HTML" tool in the Bookmark Manager. I think it places all imported bookmarks in an "Imported Bookmarks" folder. You might want to import a single bookmarks.html file at a time to have time to digest it, or at least rename the "Imported Bookmarks" folder. Now there's all those old bookmarks to check... Unfortunately Andy Halford removed his "Check Places" add-on from the a.m.o. Philip Chee has an old copy (2.4.4) on his Mozdev page. Softpedia allegedly has a copy of 2.6.2 on this page: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/CheckPlaces.shtml But it's listed as a "Mac" utility. I don't know if CheckPlaces has binary components or not, so it may or may not work on Windows. I don't know if the Softpedia copy is OK either. > When I get a Debian machine running, while I be able to have > matching profile content? I think so. I never tried doing it myself, but my understanding is that the profile structure does not change between platforms, and other people have migrated their profiles from Windows to Linux or Mac with success. > > Also, I have a 2nd WinXP Pro machine. I tried to keep two > machines in sync a few years ago. It was a disaster [don't > recall why]. What tools are now available? Well, that depends on what you want to keep in sync. For bookmarks and history, the easiest thing is to use Firefox Sync. For e-mail... hmmm, there's some tricks you can do with the "delete messages after downloading" options, but they don't cover sent messages. Perhaps the best option is just to switch your mail accounts to IMAP. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Xerox copier. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.12 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
