Ed Mullen wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote on 10/7/2014 12:58 PM:
Paul Marwick wrote on 10/7/2014 12:17 PM:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Paul Marwick wrote on 10/6/2014 3:50 PM:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Paul Marwick wrote on 10/6/2014 2:23 AM:
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.
Passwords are in: signons.sqlite - you also want the old profile's
key3.db file, the key database for passwords
Thanks for that. Something odd going on though - still doesn't
pick up
any of the passwords. I tried killing the new profile and starting
again, this time logged into a web site and saved my password. No
sign
of a signons.sqlie being generated by doing so, but going into
password
manager from the browser menu shows the saved password.
I'm also interested in where current versions of Seamonkey keep
bookmarks. Looking at the Firefox docs, Firefox seems to use
places.sqlite, but that doesn't seem to work with Seamonkey either.
:( I really don't want to give up on Seamonkey, but this is becoming
increasingly frustrating. Especially since the old profile works
ok on
one machine, just not on the one I use most frequently.
Paul.
Well, I'm a Windows user, not Linux. Still, I think the files are the
same in this case. Bookmarks are kept in places.sqlite in SM as far
as I know. You might want to peruse Mozillazine ala:
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey>
Thanks for that link - it gives me some data that I hadn't found in my
earlier searches, and is a bit more up-to-date than the link I found on
migrating profiles.
So far as I know, the only difference is in the profile location. Can't
see any reason that the files would be any different between Windows
and
Linux. In Linux, the profile is stored in a hidden (. prefix) directory
called mozilla/seamonkey/<profile-name> under the users' home
directory,
but it certainly looks as though the profile files are the same.
I've made a bit more progress. First, I've managed to get the bookmarks
correctly picked up. Turns out its not only places.sqlite you need.
There are two other files - places.sqlite-shm and places.sqlite-wal. If
those are also copied over, bookmarks work. I missed them when I first
tried to move things - they seem to be changed at the end of any
session
and sometimes appear as places.sqlite.corrupt-???. Pity there doesn't
seem to be any documentation for it....
Now that's interesting. I copy places.sqlite often to my Firefox profile
and all the bookmarks work without the other files you mention.
Second is not so good. It seems that the format for the password file
has changed again. Passwords are now stored in logins.json. Which,
naturally, is not an sqlite file. Looking at my working version of
2.29.1, it looks as though the first (successful) launch of the new
version converted from signons.sqlite. Whether there is any other
way of
doing it is not clear at the moment. I hope someone can give me a
method
of doing so....
I used to use Password Exporter extension but it says it's not available
for SM 2.29.1. :-(
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/password-exporter/?src=ss>
Just for fun I tried installing it on 29.1.1 and it works. I
installed from the .xpi file saved on my disk. You can try at the
link above but if it doesn't work let me know and I'll send you the .xpi
Thanks, I'd appreciate that. It won't install to 2.6.1 either.
Paul.
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