Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> A few days ago, I did rename .mozilla to .mozilla.old and it worked >> fine. Then I copied over my emails, password files and bookmarks. >> > > You should really test with a new profile as described. That is the > standard way to test the integrity of a profile. > > No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the > old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old > profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. > >
This is what I did the other day when I renamed .mozilla to .mozilla.old. Seamonkey did NOT crash when I did that. It also didn't after I transfered my emails and didn't for a little bit after I transfered the password files. >> I did notice that when I pointed the prefs.js file to the correct >> password file, it started messing up shortly after that. >> > > Sounds like the prefs.js is corrupt after editing. Which editor did you > use? And surely SM was closed while editing, hm? ;) > Actually, I used about:config to edit it. I did restart Seamonkey tho it shouldn't be necessary. My old passwords did show up then tho. Again, that site worked the first couple times. > >> Keep in mind that all I did is correct the name of the password file. >> > > That could be done. > > >> I guess it could be that something is messed up with the password >> file. >> > > And i guess that something went wrong with editing the prefs.js. *g* > This is the line that i changed: wallet.SchemaValueFileName And I changed it to: 60988542.s Which is the name of the file that contains my password info. Is there a way to "export" then import my password info? I can't find one other than the way I did it. > >>> Create a new profile with Tools->Switch Profile->Manage Profiles..., >>> switch to it and do nothing else than calling http://wireless.att.com/ >>> in the browser. >>> > > Do so! > > [ seamonkey-1.1.16.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz from mozilla.org ] > >> I would hate to have to install it locally that way. I sort of let >> portage handle all that. I mess up enough already with portage helping >> me. lol >> > > I doubt i will be necessary after using a testprofile. > > And there is no danger in unpacking and running SM locally. It will not > interfere with gentoo and can be safely removed after testing without > leaving traces. > > But probably not necessary. Did i mention already that you should use a > testprofile? > I have done that on windoze before. It does work. I just pulled out enough hair this week. o_O > >> I have ran Seamonkey as root before but never used sudo. >> > > Than there is no danger. Running as root is okay. > > Hartmut > > Cool. I got to have my adblock. I'm on dial-up and I try to save all the downloading I can. Dale :-) :-)
