On 05/12/2002 1:17 PM, Rick Strong wrote:

>I have noticed that when installing in Windows
>Mozilla defaults to placing mail and newsgroup
>account data in the directory
>
>C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Profiles\[acct_name]
>
>Seems like a strange location for what will almost
>certainly become massive amounts of data with any
>normal use. Why not default to the directory that
>Mozilla is being installed to?
>
>Is there any way to change this value (preferably
>during installation) so that these rather sizeable
>collections of information can be set to accumulate in
>another location? I see that once each account is created
>you can change the 'Local Directory' setting for the new
>account - is there some way to globally reset the radix
>for all these locations?
>
>This is a problem for me, since I have the OS on its
>own fairly small partition, and most of my data and
>programs on another larger one. C: filled up completely
>before I realized what was going on!
>
>Thanks in advance for any information.
>
>Rick Strong
>
>  
>
Start/Programs/mozilla/profile manager.  You can create a profile folder
anywhere you want.  After doing so you probably want to move the
information in you "default" profile to the new one.

-- 
Irwin Greenwald



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