And it came to pass that 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?
>
Mozregistry.dat and mosver.dat need to be deleted.
All your preferences are stored in Windows/Application
Data/Mozilla This is where your Profiles are kept. If you back
up that folder (copy it to another folder) and then uninstall
Mozilla via Windows' Remove Program dialogue, you should find
that the profile data is left there. All you need do then is
install the update. And if it is removed, copy your back up
into that location after install.
>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.
A down and dirty was is to simply DELETE the Mozilla/Seamonkey
folder, and the mozreg and mozver DAT files. You can write a
batch file to do this and keep it on your desktop.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
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