Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Dale:
>
>
>> start fresh and do whatever.
>>
>
> Nothing complicated, really. Start SM and create the old accounts
> exactly as they were before. Close SM and replace the folder Mail on the
> new profile with the folder Mail from the old profile.
>
That's basically what I did. It was the passwords that gave me fits. I
have a lot of passwords since I pay most bills online and order online a
lot too. I find the cheapest price whether I have done business with
them in the past or not.
> For News it should be the same, but i never had done so and preferred
> fresh newsgroups. Because, well, there often are ugly remains, some of
> the .msf may be corrupt and also some lines in the newsrc. For news i
> find it better to start fresh over.
>
> Except, of course, the tedious subcribing of the newsgroups. Here's how
> i do this.
>
> You had already created accounts for all newsservers and should have
> made a refresh for them also. Then all you have to do is to copy the
> newsrc-newsserver files from the old profile to the new one and delete
> in each of it in each line all after the :.
>
> Here is an example. Currently
>
> ----- newsrc-news.gmane.org -----
> gmane.linux.gentoo.user.german: 1-33077
> gmane.linux.gentoo.user: 1-212427
> gmane.linux.gentoo.devel: 1-60793
> gmane.linux.debian.user.german: 1-242119
> gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.german: 1-16702
> gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user: 1-43376
> gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel: 1-68902
> gmane.comp.emulators.wine.releases: 1-87
> gmane.emacs.gnus.general: 1-68424
> gmane.emacs.gnus.user: 1-12111
> ---------------
>
> would become for the new profile
>
> ----- newsrc-news.gmane.org -----
> gmane.linux.gentoo.user.german:
> gmane.linux.gentoo.user:
> gmane.linux.gentoo.devel:
> gmane.linux.debian.user.german:
> gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.german:
> gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user:
> gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel:
> gmane.comp.emulators.wine.releases:
> gmane.emacs.gnus.general:
> gmane.emacs.gnus.user:
> ---------------
>
> In this way i reuse my old subscriptions if i go to a new newsserver.
>
I don't have any news accounts. Maybe one day tho. ;-) I get to bug a
new set of people.
> Then you need number.s and number.w from the old profile. In the new one
> other numbers are used so they had to be adjusted in the prefs.js.
>
> Other useful files are abook.mab, bookmarks.html and if you are using
> certificates cert8.db and key3.db.
>
I did copy the key3.db file because the how to said it was part of the
passwords file set.
>
>> With the last "clean" profile, I only copied the emails,
>> password files, bookmarks then edited the prefs.js file to point to the
>> new "clean" profile.
>>
>
> Hm? That i don't understand.
>
Well, at first, it wouldn't find the .s and .w file so no passwords. I
had to sort of point it out to Seamonkey.
>
>> I did change some preferences under the Edit menu.
>>
>
> Why not.
>
>
>> I just wonder if one of those triggers something that is somewhat
>> unique to me.
>>
>
> There should be no problem.
>
>
>>> number.s contains password info, that's correct, but the corresponding
>>> pref is signon.SignonFileName and not wallet.SchemaValueFileName.
>>>
>>>
>> Well, according to a how to, that was the correct file
>>
>
> Sure, number.s is for the passwords. It is the correct file but belongs
> to signon.SignonFileName ;)
>
On mine, it appears to be the same for both, even in the new profile.
May test that more later.
>
>> and it did load my passwords as soon as I pointed it to that file. I
>> found that by looking at about:config and finding the new password
>> file it generated while making the clean profile.
>>
>
> I have tried that now. Starting SM, closing it immediately and looking
> in the profile there is neither number.s nor number.w. You have to input
> at least one password before number.s is created.
>
>
>> I then replaced the location to point to my old file.
>>
>
> You must copy the old number.s to the new profile and then change the
> value in the prefs.js from the new number to the old number, yes.
>
>
>>> I don't like changing prefs with about:config and prefer user_pref
>>> in the user.js. There i can comment and i know later what i had
>>> done. And i can use the user.js in a new profile.
>>>
>> I need to research user.js. I have never heard of that one.
>>
>
> The user.js is a normal textfile in the profile which must be created it
> it not exists. In the same directory in which the prefs.js resides.
>
> Upon start SM looks into the user.js and put the found prefs into the
> prefs.js.
>
> Here's an excerpt from mine.
>
> ----- user.js -----
> user_pref("mail.quoted_graphical", false);
>
> user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
> user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
>
> user_pref("mail.compose.other.header", "Supersedes,Control");
>
> // Leerzeilenproblematik im gequoteten Text
> user_pref("mail.quoteasblock", false);
>
> // Beim Start Threads zugeklappt lassen
> user_pref("mailnews.scroll_to_new_message", false);
> ---------------
>
>
>> P. S. About to try the updated Seamonkey. < Dale crosses fingers, toes
>> and whatever else he can cross >
>>
>
> You mean SM2? Well, it will migrate your old profile and if there are
> errors ... ;)
>
> Hartmut
>
>
>
>
I was talking about the Seamonkey -1.1.16. The Seamonkey2 is a binary.
I'm not real big on those, if I can help it. May try it anyway, maybe.
Dale
:-) :-)
