And it came to pass that Daniel Veditz wrote:
>Peter Lairo wrote:
>>
>> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> does the installer version of mozilla delete these files or
>> should i do it by hand every time?
>
>mozver.dat and mozregistry.dat don't need to be deleted. This
>is a myth promulgated by the same folks who thump the side of
>their TV to fix the reception. Mozilla will work just fine
>even if these files happen to be corrupted, which is unlikely
>in any case.
>
Good to know. The Netscape guys have been pushing deleting
those files.
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