On 1/5/2015 6:59 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: > I previously wrote: >> >> First, make a clean install of SeaMonkey on the new PC. >> >> It is most simple if your profile resides at the equivalent place on >> your new PC that they were on the old PC. For example, I have a profile >> named David (my name) at <D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David>. (Note >> that I eliminated the random part of the folder name at the end of the >> path.) On a new PC -- same or different version of Windows -- I would >> move this to the same path. >> >> Finally, I would locate the file profiles.ini for SeaMonkey on the new >> PC. In Windows 7, this is something like >> <C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey>, where "xxxx" for me >> is David. Edit that file to point to your new profile. For me, the >> file profiles.ini begins: >> >> [General] >> StartWithLastProfile=0 >> >> [Profile0] >> Name=David >> IsRelative=0 >> Path=D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David >> Default=1 > > > I don't recall mozilla ever using Windows backslash, always forward so I > think that should be: > > D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David > > and you might have to quote if there is a space in the path: > > "D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David" > > I would advise NOT using spaces in you path: > > Path=D:/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/David
A few years ago, I decided that I wanted my profiles on the hard drive that I used for data, in an esily reached folder that contained both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird profiles. I edited the content of profiles.ini for SeaMonkey and for Thunderbird, using the format of paths that already existed there but just changing where they pointed. This involved \ instead of /, and it did not involve quoting where there were blanks. The profiles.ini files I had to leave where they were. Everything worked okay and still works. I copied part of the current content of my SeaMonkey profiles.ini for my reply quoted above. >> >> The IsRelative=0 indicates that the Path term is a complete path and not >> a path relative to where the file profiles.ini resides. I have three >> other profiles, each for a special purpose. For those extra profiles, >> there is [Profile1], [Profile2], and [Profile3]; they have Default=0. >> >> I am very glad I did my profiles this way. When I had to reinstall >> Windows 7 because malware blocked me from even booting, my profiles were >> not touched. I did not lose any bookmarks, history, or (for >> Thunderbird) E-mails. Also, my C-disc is not very large. My scheme >> moves the profiles to a separate hard drive that is much larger. >> > > You do not backup? You could not access the drive with another system? Of course I backup. I do it weekly. But if I cannot boot, I cannot restore from a backup. I was doing backups by folders, not by partitions. Now I backup by partitions. > Unfortunately stupid drive letters have unnecessarily complicated > Windows. Much prefer Linux filesystem where data can be moved another > partition, another drive, another system, or even span all of the above > without impacting your installation at all. > I used UNIX well before I ever saw a PC with Windows, both UNIX C and UNIX Korn. I really like them and still code server-side scripts for my Web site in UNIX. However, many of the applications that I like only exist for Windows. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
