Good Day,
MacOS 8.6.
HD partitions: OS, applications, userI, userII.
The main problem is to make each profile stick on its respective
partition, home directory really, and not in OS/Documents.
I installed mozilla onto the application partition. At startup profile
manager asked me to check one of the existing profiles - netscape 4.7 -
for conversion. Restarting after that mozilla by-passed the profile
manager alltogether. How do I edit profile manager? I can't seem to find
anything on him/her in mozilla directory nor in user profile directory.
I changed (default) path-to-profile in 'Mail/News Account Settings' to
the appropriate location and moved the converted profile directory to
its new place. I then deleted the mozilla folder and ran the installer
again. Profile manager asked me which profile to convert, and I picked
the other one. Changed path-to-profile as before.
This seems to work for a little while but I tend to loose the converted
profiles at startup. Profile manager then lists both profiles
pre-converted and I have to start all over again. If I delete and
recreate one profile on the spot I get in on that profile but profile
manager takes the rest of the day off. Work ethics ... (sigh).
This is a serious problem. I also encountered a few serious nuisances.
Reading news I can't re-connect to the net by clicking on a new message.
It starts dialing, locks up and I have to force quit. Clicking on the
server in the left pane works. Then I click the group, let the messages
load and click the new message.
Nuisance #2. Talkback is turned on. However, it never sent any message
after the many lockups in mozillaNews. Talkback is operated by profile
manager I presume ;=(
I basically spent all weekend wrestling with mozilla. Either I make the
same mistake over and over again or these are bugs. There hasn't been
much macintosh stuff on this list lately.
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A. Maurits de Wolff
Amsterdam
