Jerry Baker wrote: > So I tried creating a new profile and copying all the files from my > original profile to the new directory and I'm back to square one.
1. Make a backup of your profile. 2. Delete your profile and your old Mozilla installation and everything. Depending on your OS, for example there may be a file called mozver.dat in C:\WINDOWS\ which you can delete. 3. Install Mozilla in the desired directory. 4. Start Mozilla and create a new profile if this does not happen automatically. 5. Go to 'Edit' -> 'Preferences' and adjust all the stuff there. 6. Start Mail&News and create all the accounts again you used to have with your old profile, but don's fetch new mail yet from the server. Adjust all the setting in 'Edit' - 'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings'. 7. Now, close Mozilla. The task is to copy only those files back to your fresh and clean new profile which are necessary (i.e. mails and bookmarks) but not all that old trash. Find your new profile. There has to be a folder called 'mail', with subfolders for each of your accounts. In those subfolders, delete all files with the extension .msf. They are only for mail organisation (lack of a better english term) and are recreated at next startup. Your emails are actually stored in those files without extension like 'Inbox', 'Sent' and so on. Copy only those files from your old profile to the responding folders of your new profile and overwrite the files which are already there. 8. Copy your bookmarks.html from your old profile to the correct place in your new profile directory. 9. If you now start Mozilla it will a) work and b) you still have all your important personal stuff. :-) HTH, Fabian P.S. It would be easier to respond if you at least tell what OS you are using next time. And maybe rant less. Read FAQs. Your question (clean way of migrating profiles / install newer Mozilla builds if you have rather old profiles) is already answered ... frequently. And note that some people may tell you that this is not the correct usegroup for end-user questions, better use netscape.mozilla.user.* for that ;-)
