alexyu wrote on 12/04/2020 9:21 AM:
NFN Smith wrote, on 07 Apr 20 11:42:
xxyyz wrote:
I have SM 2.49.5 32 bit on WXP and 64 bit on W7, and have been
synching them by copying the Mozilla folders (C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Mozilla on WXP, C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming
\Mozilla on W7) to and fro, with no problems.
If I put SM 2.53.1 64 bit on the W7 machine, will I still be able
to do this?
If you're doing this kind of activity to allow you to have your mail
on more than one machine, you really need to move to IMAP, where your
mail is stored on the server. Even if it is technically possible to
copy your profiles back and forth between two machines, Seamonkey was
never designed to work that way. Conversely, IMAP is designed this
kind of condition.
I have a similar setup, with one important difference: Both OS's (WXP &
W7) are on separate partitions on dual-boot one disk, and I have SM and
FF on both, with just one profile (on a non-standard location) for each
'set' (one for both SM's, one for both FF's . I also periodically copy
select data from one set to the other, but that's secondary here).
On this Laptop, I dual-boot Win7 and various Linux OS'. As Linux can
"see" my Win7 partitions but Win7 cannot "see" my Linux installs, I have
my SeaMonkey Profile so both OS' can "see" it!!
Considering other points in this thread, this setup is not just "to have
[my] mail on more than one machine", but much more: To have a seamless
browser/email experience on the two OS's (because I use each one for
different purposes, but want to have that possibility). Also, this
setup uses SM 2.49.5 and FF ESR 52.7.4 and is expected to 'stop there',
since I have dozens of AddOns I want to keep using, and most of them
will no longer work on newer releases (yes, even SM 2.53).
When I first implemented this, I knew that some files in the Profile
used 'physical' addresses but, since the Profile would be accessed by
any OS in any order, I hoped that SM/FF would automatically handle this
(a behavior I noticed during tries towards this setup), and it seems to
work flawlessly (except for a few Extensions) so far.
About the only problem I've had with my Dual-Booting set-up is when I
want to download a file onto my Hard Drive, my Win7 might be trying to
save the file to '/Downloads'. The '/' indicates that the download was
destined for a Linux partition .... which Win7 knows nothing about so,
more or less, responds "HUH!!"
The statement that "SeaMonkey was never designed to work that way"
brought this back for me, since I also imagined that this was true, but
see that nevertheless it DOES "work that way" for me -- and, since I
have never seen any information about this, I'd like to know if anyone
can furnish any, and warn of any potential problems with this setup.
'... nevertheless it DOES "work that way" for me ...' YEAP!!
--
Daniel
Win7 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.5 Build identifier: 20190609032134
Linux User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623
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