Mark Hammond wrote:
>
> Daniel Veditz wrote:
>
> > mozver.dat and mozregistry.dat don't need to be deleted. This is a myth
> > [....] Mozilla will work just fine even if these files happen to be
> > corrupted, which is unlikely in any case.
>
> Unfortunately, it _is_ true that this file must be deleted to start
> Mozilla in some (rare) circumstances.
>
> I personally have seen this quite a number of times, and in the win32
> newsgroup you will find that just one hour or so after your post, it was
> suggested to a user that they remove these files - and sure enough, they
> could again start Mozilla.
The first post in the thread to which you refer says James he had *already*
tried deleting mozregistry.dat and it hadn't helped. The files he did delete
that helped were the profile files. Those are notorious for causing
problems. Deleting mozregistry.dat was sometimes helpful in the past when it
contained the profile data; it does no longer.
> Indeed, I have a mozregistry.dat file in my inbox that causes such a
> crash, and intend seeing if I can find exactly who is hanging...
Was this file generated before or after the profile data was moved out of
that file?
-Dan Veditz
