My second browser was early Netscape. My current mail files began life
in Netscape. I have had three Mozilla suite profiles. First a 1X, a copy
of that became early 2X, and a copy of that became the current 2X. I
have used copies or scratch created profiles, all of which were
available in a profile menu that opens when a SM shortcut is activated.
Only once did I ever use an EXE "installer". All the rest have been the
ZIP distros. And I have never installed one version over another, always
alongside. And I don't remove the older until I no longer want it. Once
when searching for the date/time of a bug insertion I had twenty
versions on the HDD, and could run any of them with my choice of
profile, or the default profile if I did not bother creating a shortcut.
And, app, profile and mail are separate trees, none of which are on a
boot partition. An OS change does not effect SM. I just need to make a
new shortcut for the new OS.
The point of this is, you can have as many app versions, profiles and
"mail boxes" as you wish. And OS and app versions can come and go, and
this can go on for decades, without anything being lost or corrupted.
And I share the same, literal, profile and mail files cross-platform
between Win and OS/2-eCS.
It is possible to have a stress-free experience with SM. I attribute it
to separate trees, never using the EXE, and no way ever allow an
automatic update.
But then this list would be very quiet.
Ray
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