On 02/06/2002 02:00 PM, Andrea Monni wrote: > Hi togheter, > > I'm going to format and reinstall my WinME notebook and obviously I'm > going to back up my datas. > > I'm using Mozilla since 0.8.2 as my mailer and the profile is always the > same since I installed it, I was wondering if it was better to back up > only my mail and restore it in a new profile or do like I've always > done, since NS 4.x times, backing up the whole profile dir and then copy > everything from the old profile to the new one.
If the paths will be the exactly the same on your new installation, then why not. Make sure you backup the *complete* Mozilla folder, including registry.dat (and \windows\mozregistry.dat), so that Mozilla 0.9.8 knows that there is a profile already to use. - Holger
