Hi The best answer to this problem is to not have your mozilla profiles in the \mozilla\bin\mozilla\profiles location.
You could, however, copy your \profiles directory (copy the complete structure \mozilla\profiles\)to a temp location, delete the current mozilla build from \mozilla\bin - leave the structure \mozilla\bin in place but empty. If you are installing a nightly it may require unzipping directly into the \mozilla\bin directory, otherwise unzip to \mozilla. After unzipping mozilla copy the \mozilla\profiles structure back into \mozilla\bin. Start mozilla and go through the Create a user routine using your existing profile name and profile directory, mozilla should see that profile already exists and offer to use it. You will need to do this for each profile. Hope that helps Pete David Teasdale wrote: > I'm just a user, so if I use the "build" term wrong, I'm sorry. > > The Readme for new builds warns against installing over old builds, and > it instructs us to completely uninstall an old build before installing > the new. Surely, they don't mean delete the entire installation, > profiles and all? Can I get by with just deleting the updated > subdirectories and copying over that? > > Am I being a worry wart? Is there an uninstall procedure that leaves > the profiles intact? > > I am backed-up and can experiment a little, but I need to plan the time. > > Dave >
