On 11 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Neil sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Stuart Summerville wrote:
>
>> I've been having the same problem, and the solution you suggest didn't
>> work for me. Taking my NT profile dir as base:
>>
>> c:\winnt\profiles\me\appdata\
>>
>> Then my old profile is:
>>
>> Mozilla\Profiles\myprofile\abcd.slt
>>
>> Then, after MOZ forgets to use that profile, I try to create a new one
>> pointing to that dir....
>>
>> If I set the profile path to (in the new profile dialog):
>> Mozilla\Profiles\myprofile
>>
>> it uses, say:
>> Mozilla\Profiles\myprofile\efgh.slt
>>
>> which won't work.
>>
>> If I set the profile path to:
>> Mozilla\Profiles\myprofile\abcd.slt
>>
>> it will then actually use, say:
>> Mozilla\Profiles\myprofile\abcd.slt\efgh.slt.
>>
>> Either way, I can't see the old profile.
>
> You need to _name_ your profile abcd.slt, and create it in
> Mozilla\Profiles\myprofile
Which should do the trick for e-mail and NG settings and the like; it might
even work for the chrome. But I'm wondering about the *.s and *.w files,
where password info and the like is stored; will such a simple rename do the
trick with those?
Note: I'm not going to mess things up so as to have to put it to the test,
'k?
/b.
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