I oto w pewnym momencie (2002-10-10 08:01), Victor B. Gonzalez pisze: > HODGESJASO wrote: > >> I reformatted a disk but saved the entire PROFILES dir on W2K in docs and >> settings. When I reinstalled Mozilla 1.0, I pasted in the old >> PROFILE and >> fired it up. >> >> I can use the addressboook, but not a single email message or folder >> was pulled >> in by Mozilla's Mail application! >> How can I get my old email into the new installation??? > > Hello HODGESJASO, I recently found out how to easily install an old > profile. After a clean install and you have Mozilla and your profile > where you want them launch Mozillas Profiler. > > If you installed from a zip file simply highlight your Mozilla.exe > icon and create a shortcut. Right click the new shorcut and under the > Target: > Field edit this "X:\Program Files\mozilla-win32\bin\mozilla.exe" > > To this "X:\Program Files\mozilla-win32\bin\mozilla.exe" -profilemanager > > You're simply adding a space then -profilemanager after the command. > > X: is just a placeholder for wherever you installed it. > > Once you've got profile manager up it's probably blank so you'll want to > create a new profile. Do not attempt to create a new profile into your > old profiles location hoping Mozilla will pick it up. It will but > partially and its not what you want or need. You want to get it all > back. > Create your name and choose the location (if you really want it in the > old location where your old profile is now, simply move your old profile > out the way). Continue and get into Mozilla. > > Now shut down Mozilla and make sure its completely shut down (no tray > icon either). > > Locate your new profile and go as deep as your name and one folder down. > For example my profile is Victor B Gonzalez and the next folder down > is hsufhoe.slt > > Go into that funny named folder and delete everything. Everything has to > be deleted. > > Now locate your old profile and go into its funny named folder and > copy everything into the new funny named folder. > > Voila, everything including all preferences should come back, > including emails and everything :) > > I hope it works plus the new profile name I used was exactly the same as > the old one. I simply copied everything from old funny named folder to > the new one.
The reason it works is because you _copied_ and not *moved* your profile files. Now your new profile contains references to the old one. All mails are still stored in the old profile directory... Check the dates on the files in your mail directories. IMHO after moving your profile you'd have to change all the "local directory" entries in [Mailnews -> Account settings -> <all accounts> -> server settings] to point to your new location. After that, you still should check if any of the files in your new profile contain the name of the "old funny named folder". It can happen that some files like chrome.rdf contain pointers to the old profile directory. I think all those paths should be edited and replaced by the new profile path. *But!* There is an easier way to use old profile data in Mozilla. Restore the data to the same directory path it was before the backup (to avoid editing the paths like I mentioned above). Let's say the path is "c:\path-to-old-profiles\myprofilename\xyzabcde.slt". Run ProfileManager and create a new profile. When prompted for profile name enter "myprofilename", then press the "Choose folder" button and point at the folder "c:\path-to-old-profiles\". Finish. That's all. Mozilla will notice that the profile directory isn't empty and will register xyzabcde.slt as the directory to use for this profile. HTH -- E2rd
