I am in the same perdicament... upgrade nightlies nightly (heh), but i
fear that some of my profile has been corrupted over time. i'm having
many problems which i believe are profile related, because i don't get
the same problems on other machines. for example, none of my page
settings persist (my sidebar, toolbars, etc).
I look at my mozregistry.dat file and see stuff from Netscape 4.73, which
i ditched like 8 months ago... this kind of stuff is surely affecting
mozilla's performance on my machine.
so i too would like to know how i can do a clean swipe/reinstall of
mozilla, yet keep my important profile info in tact.
-j
Peter Lairo wrote:
> I have been installing the nightly builds every day for the past 10+
> weeks by simply copying the new files over the old ones. Occasionally, I
> will delete the mozilla directory and copy the new files into a new
> directory.
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that there are aspects of mozilla that are not
> being updated with this method:
>
> 1. prefs.js,
> 2. registry.dat,
> 3. mozregistry.dat
> 4. mozver.dat
>
> What is the best way to get the full functionality of the newest nightly
> builds, without having to recreate vital aspects of my profile every day
> (newsgroups, stored passwords, IMAP, bookmarks, addresses, etc)?
>
> Which if the above files can be deleted / should be edited to do this?
>
> Would a profile migration be the solution? How is this done?
>
> There must be some "nifty" way you programmers are using that doesn't
> loose all your settings but keeps mozilla up-to-date.
