Hi Wolfe Create your profile(s) in a seperate directory not in your \mozilla\bin directory. To do this you need to have specified the mozilla_home directory before creating or importing any profiles. Here is how I went about it.
I unzipped mozilla 0941 (works the same for 097) into a directory J:\moz0941\bin. I then created a CMD file to set up any required paths not in my config.sys file, which I call mozstart.cmd :- /* Add any necessary PATH type statements */ '@SET MOZILLA_HOME=j:\' '@set PATH=H:\JAVA13\JRE\bin;%path%' '@set BEGINLIBPATH=H:\JAVA13\JRE\bin;H:\JAVA13\JRE\dll;j:\moz0941\bin' '@SET CLASSPATH=' '@set java_home=H:\JAVA13\JRE' /* Start Mozilla - no profiles */ '@j:\moz0941\bin\mozilla.EXE -l en_US -ProfileManager' Running the above CMD file starts Mozilla with the Profile Manager. When creating or importing a Netscape profile Mozilla will now create the \Mozilla\Profiles tree in the directory pointed to by the Mozilla_Home variable:- J:\ Creating 2 profiles, "losepete" and "nicki", gives me this as a Mozilla profile tree :- j:\mozilla\profiles\losepete j:\mozilla\profiles\nicki Using the same Mozilla_Home setting for any future versions of Mozilla means that the profiles should be instantly useable - no more creating the same profiles :-) Do remember that you will need the Mozilla_Home setting to be the same when you run Mozilla so you could use the above CMD file to start Mozilla. Hope this helps Pete Wolfi wrote: >1.) Is it neccessary to create a new profile for every new build that >is copied over an existing installation? > >2.) How can I use existing data like History, Bookmarks, Personal >Toolbar, Password Manager, MailNews-accounts, cookies, mime types, >addressbook,.... in the new account, so that the old one can be >deleted? > >Wolfi >
