Joe Farruggio wrote: > Joe Farruggio wrote: > I changed the mozilla_home variable in config.sys and the moved the > profiles to the directory specified and it did not work. None of my old > profiles show up even after changing prefs.js to account for the new > directory ( the old directory was specified in numerous places in that > file). Does anyone have any other ideas? > > David Forrester wrote:
I did just this thing a couple of weeks ago. I mainly stumbled through it, but I did get it done. I see that David has alrady answered, so it should have worked. However, I'll tell you what I think I did anyway, just in case it gives you a different perspective. I provide the info as it is on my machine, so you'll have to use your directory name instead of mine. I created a new directory called H:\MozillaProfile. Mine happens to be on the same drive as Mozilla, but that shouldn't make any difference. I put this this in Config.sys: SET MOZILLA_HOME=H:\MozillaProfile Make sure Mozilla is closed. When I installed Mozilla the first time, my mail directory structure looked like this: H:\Mozilla98\bin\Mozilla\Profiles\ccsten\r18lihuh.slt\Mail and the news was: H:\Mozilla98\bin\Mozilla\Profiles\ccsten\r18lihuh.slt\News The important part, as far as a Mozilla profile is concerned, starts at \Mozilla\profiles\ccsten\r18lihuh.slt\... This is what Mozilla creates when you create a profile. This is the part that needs to me moved to your profile directory that you have now specified. So my directories look like this: H:\MozillaProfile\Mozilla\Profiles\ccsten\r18lihuh.slt\mail and H:\MozillaProfile\Mozilla\Profiles\ccsten\r18lihuh.slt\News And my main Mozilla executables are at: H:\Mozilla98\bin Now reboot. The easy part is done. From here on I'm not exactly positive how I told Mozilla where my profile was, but here's what I think I did. When I started Mozilla, it wanted to either migrate my Netscape profile or create a new one. I didn't want to do either of these, so somewhere in this process I was able to press a browse button or some such thing to select my already existing profile. I'm really fuzzy about this part, but it was relatively easy to accomplish. -- Terry Norton Connected with eComStation http://www.eComstation.com/ Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
