On 4/7/2020 3:15 PM, Ray Davison wrote:
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The short answer is; absolutely.
My PC "cubical" has three desktops and one laptop, and I have recently
setup three other laptops. And, since the first DrDOS every machine has
had at least two OSs. Currently the laptops have two each and the
desktops each have five. So I was able to do exactly what you asked.
I did not have a WXP with SM 2.49.5. So I copied the 2.49.5 app tree
from a laptop to the WXP box. Then I did a newer-file-only copy of the
profile tree and the mail tree from the laptop to the WXP box. BTW,
that newer-file-only copy to another box is my backup system.
I opened the WXP 2.49.5 sub-directory, and copied the run
object/shortcut to the WXP desktop. I than ran the 2.49.5 shortcut on
the WXP box. I looked at the bookmarks and passwords and ran a link off
the history. SM 2.49.5 on WXP now has the same data as 2.53.1 on the
laptop.
My "Welcome to Netscape" email is dated 2June97. I have always
considered NS/Moz/SM a very friendly app. Some don't seem to like
sharing. Where I have two Win partitions they share both the app and
data. For several years I had OS/2 and Win with their own app versions
but sharing profiles and mail.
I am a little concerned with 2.53.1. In the past the only time I needed
to be concerned with sharing data was when we went from 1X to 2X. And
they made a big deal of it, and bumped the version a whole number. And
I would never install one SM version over another, especially after they
say it is too different to share a profile with a previous version.
The only clue I have about issues with 2.53.1 is something to do with
master passwords. Since my master password is the lock on the door I
tried several recent versions with the same profile.
On one machine I currently have things that call themselves 2.49.5,
2.50, 2.53.3b1, 2.53.1, and 2.57a1. Some are WG9. I ran back and forth
thru them at least twice. Only 2.57a1 had issues.
All you need to manage SM is a little knowledge of sub-directory
structure and copy.
Wait. Older SM versions (e.g., v2.49.5) can read newer SM versions
(v2.53.1)'s datas like places.sqlite? :O
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