I found 7.0 PR1 awful, deleted it, and went back to using 4.73. The former took eons to load and frequently locked up. Four seven three however is rock solid.
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:48:26 GMT, Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Richard spoke thusly: > >>After having 4.73 crash one too many times, decided to try a newer >>version. >>Loaded up 6.2 >>Ran into various issues, including having 6.2 forcibly try to create new >>id from old id using C: drive without asking or giving me a choice to >>use a different drive. Very poor. >>So instead decided to create new id, and try to point 6.2 to where all >>of the 4.73 info was. This took some doing, as it was anything but >>intuitive. Have now managed to set up mail, with access to existing mail >>from 4.73. >>However, there does not appear to be a way to point to my 4.73 bookmark >>file. >>Also, there does not appear to be a way to point to my 4.73 address >>book. So in this case I found the import option, and tried to import my >>address book from 4.73. The result was that only part of the address >>book converted over. Several of the groups in my personal address book >>did not port. So I went back to 4.73, did and export to an ldif file, >>and tried to import the ldif file into 6.2. Got slightly different >>results, but still did not get the entire address book. >> >>Any assistance regarding address book, bookmarks, other items, would be >>appreciated. >> > >Netscape 6/7 can not use the same profile as Communicator. They use >different mail summary formats; the bookmark file names are different; >and the address books are a different format. This is why it wanted to >import your Communicator profile rather than use it. > >To specify a location for a new profile, use the profile manager to >create a new profile. To migrate your info manually from Communicator to >Netscape 6/7, go here: http://www.hmetzger.de/etips6.html#5 > >PS. Try Netscape 7.0 PR1, which is far better than 6.2. The final >Netscape 7.0 should be out this month.
