Holger Metzger wrote: >> >> 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.
What I did, first with NS 4.x then with 0.9.4, was to install NS/Mozilla on the clean system, create a profile with the old name and the copy in that profile dir the entire contents of the directory I backed up before formatting the system. It has always worked like a charm but since there was a lot of talk about "installing with a clean profile dir" lately I was wondering wheter there were some advantages in doing it. Andrea -- Andrea Monni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It is our choices, Harry, that Y! IM: andreamonni show what we truly are, far ICQ: 7387142 more than our abilities." Tiscali NetPhone: 178-229-5413x165 A. Dumbledore
