On 10/05/2014 11:23 PM, Paul Marwick wrote: > I've been having all sorts of problems with 2.29 and 2.29.1. On my > desktop, 2.29.1 now seems to be working fairly well. On my laptop, it > either can't see my email accounts or the browser won't run. In > frustration, I decided to let 2.29.1 create a new profile and migrate > data from the old one to it. Main things I wanted were email accounts, > bookmarks and passwords. However... > > I read this page - > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_SeaMonkey > prior to starting. Trouble is, it doesn't seem to have been updated > since sometime in 2009, so a good bit of it seems to now be obsolete. > And I've not found other sources that are much better. > > bookmarks.html no longer exists, and places.sqlite doesn't seem to > contain my original bookmarks. I've got round most of the problem by > exporting bookmarks.html from the old profile (its still active and > available under a different Linux distribution). But passwords has so > far got me completely lost. > > I followed the directions - used the new profile to log into a password > protected site, saved the password. But there is no <numbers>.s file > created. And no information that I can find to help me actually get the > password data from the old profile to the new one. > > I've used Seamonkey for as long as its been around, and prefer it to > Firefox/Thunderbird, but I've got to admit, the problems with language > files, profile problems and just general mess involved with 2.29 is > making me seriously consider migrating to something else entirely. Which > I'd rather not do, but.... > > I'm using the Arch 64-bit build of 2.291. > > Paul. >
I drop the entire profile into my Windows (WinXP, Win7, Win8) mozilla folder. See if that works for you. You may have to tweak your addons/plugins etc., but in general it should work. If not, do a mass find and replace on the prefs.js file to replace the /home/<user>/... to c:\\<user> paths in the prefs.js file & off you go. Then I use rsync/grsync to keep the entire profile on a separate shared data disk so that I can update the Windows profile when I boot to that partition. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
