Ray Davison wrote:
Daniel wrote:
So, if I had my profile at
H:\here\there\anywhere\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles
would the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey command locate my Profile??
Putting profiles anywhere you want is easy and does not require editing
any existing files.
Definitely easiest to do with the Profile Manager.
It helps if you understand sub-directories, and work in them rather than
the Win overlay "folders".
Create a sub-directory, anywhere Win has access, give it any name you
chose that is valid and compatible with surrounding files.
Put none, part, or all of an existing profile in the new sub-directory.
I'm not even sure that you have to do that. Run the Profile Manager,
create a new profile, and make sure you use the Choose Folder button.
That pops up an Explorer dialog, where you can choose the precise
location (and name, without the random characters).
Create a new or edit an existing shortcut so that the target is in the
form of; "Y:\SM2495\seamonkey.exe -Profilemanager".
Run the shortcut. SM will open to profile manager. Select "create
profile". Pause and study each page. Profile manager is going to
suggest a default type profile in the default location. Scrap that.
Enter the name you wish to show on your profile menu. Lead SM to where
you created the new sub-directory.
As noted, you can do the directory creation in the Profile Manager,
without having to do it separately.
When you finish, a profile menu will appear, with your new profile. Run
that profile. SM will create whatever it needs for that version. If in
your new profile you put an entire profile from a previous version, SM
will just update it. If you left the new profile empty, SM will create
a complete profile. If you just put a few files, maybe passwords, SM
will use what it can and create the rest.
By having SM always open to profile manager, you can add an new version
along side the old, and keep the old until you decide you like the new
better. And you can have as many profiles as you chose. I always have
several test profiles. That way if I want to try something I an not
concerned about breaking a working profile.
I fully concur on that one. I do that with both Seamonkey and Firefox
(and even Thunderbird) on several machines. I have my primary Seamonkey
profile fairly heavily tweaked, especially with limits on cookie
handling, ad blocking and script blocking. I'm used to a lot of web
sites not working correctly when first visit (and me having to adjust
temporary permissions in NoScript). But I can't always get things to
behave correctly, and a lot of times (especially with sites related to
e-commerce), it's faster and easier to simply use a profile that's
mostly untweaked for that one transaction.
But there's also use for all sorts of testing. In both Seamonkey and
Firefox, I maintain profiles that have no tweaking other than settings
to clear all history at the end of a session. I title those "bare
metal". Thus, if Seamonkey isn't working the way I want it, restarting
with the bare metal profile helps me to quickly determine whether I have
a generic problem with Seamonkey, or that there's something that's amiss
with my primary profile. Nearly always, it's the latter. With Firefox,
I have a profile that I use to evaluate new extensions. And on a virtual
machine, I have both a beta of Seamonkey 2.53.8 and an alpha of 2.57
installed (separate directories) where I can watch developments of both.
Because profiles aren't backward-compatible, I have separate profiles
for each version of Seamonkey, where the 2.53 installation uses a
profile that I use only with that, and where the 2.57 installation uses
its own profile, and doesn't touch the 2.53 profile.
Smith
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