On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 08:01 PM, Marc van Gemert wrote: > On 25-03-2003, Kevin Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All of a sudden, Netscape 4.79 is crashing regularly on me and >> freezing my >> G3/233 updated with a Zif to 433....192 MB Ram >> >> Anybody experiencing this? Any suggestions on how to correct it? > > > Trash Netscape Preferences in [your harddisk]\System > Folder\Preferences\Netscape Users\[your name] > > That should correct it. > You have to set some prefs again though such as your incomimg and > outgoing mail server etc. etc.
Strewth Marc, that's a bit drastic. If Kevin is using Netscape as his mail client, all his eMail goes down the gurgler, not to mension all his bookmarks & history. Kevin, if you want to try Marcs suggestion, DON'T trash the file, but just move it out of the Preferences folder. Duplicate the moved folder in case you stuff up the next instructions. Start up the Netscape Profile Manager (if that's what it's called in 5), delete the old name from the list, and create a new user the same name as your previous name. Log onto Netscape, and see if your problems have gone away. If not, then the preferences are not at fault. Otherwise, a re-install or update would be best. If everything is ok, then you can gradually add items from your old preferences into the newly created folder, starting with your mail backup. NOTE that when Netscape creates a new user, eg 'Brian', inside 'Brian' is another folder with a meaningless name, eg 'upyvbmtu.slt' DON'T replace this folder, but open it and gradually drag your previous items into it, and replace the new items. The old items will be inside another meaningless named folder eg "Brian:upyourstu.slt'. I would replace the items in the following order, trying Netscape after each move. Mail Bookmarks.html History.dat History.mab cookies.txt prefs.bak prefs.js After that, whatever you like. Once you find the offending file, just remove it. Netscape should re-build it (or you could copy the same file from somewhere else) This is a typical list in the folder (from Netscape 7). I don't know the difference from a Netscape 5 list 4237114792.s abook.mab bookmarks.html Cache chrome cookies.txt default-connections.rdf default-invite.rdf default-messages-icq.rdf default-messages.rdf history.dat history.mab localstore.rdf Mail mimeTypes.rdf panacea.dat panels.rdf prefs.bak prefs.js search.rdf Security US XUL FastLoad File An aside ::: Because I hated Netscape preferences holding all that info, I used to create a folder at root level (called 'Netscape users'), and navigate to it for each user. If you ever want to do a clean system install, or back up your browser stuff, it's way easier not being in the Prefs folder. Regards Santa And what, you ask, was the beginning of it all? And it is this...... Existence that multiplied itself For sheer delight of being And plunged with numberless trillions of forms So that it might find itself innumerably Sri Aurobindo -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
