Bhuvan Racham wrote:
> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
>> If I install Mozilla on a new Windows (NT4) system, it creates
>> <windir>\mozregistry.dat
>> <windir>\mozver.dat
>
> These files seems to be coming from some scheduled tasks of
> xpinstaller. No 6.0 profile information is stored here.
>
>> <windir>\nsreg.dat
>
> This is 4.x profile registry.
FYI: No 4.x installed.
> Today, I think as part of moving data across, we query and try to
> open the nsreg.dat. So, registry class ends up creating one, if there
> isn't one already, in a skeleton format. Similar thing could be
> happening with mozregistry data (as try to move all those users who
> might have had mozregistry.dat as the home of profile information).
> However as mentioned above, mozregistry.dat has been home of some
> xpinstaller data also.
xpinstaller group: Which data is that? Should I care? (I guess not.)
>> <appdata>\Mozilla\registry.dat
>
> This is the true home of 6.0/Mozilla profile info. We have landed this
> a change quite sometime back.
*relief*
Thanks for the answer, bhuvan.
>> What are the files for, exactly?
>>
>> Please, don't tell me that mozregistry.dat holds authorative
>> pointers to the Mozilla user profiles. registry.dat seems more
>> appropriate for that.
>>
>> Background: Netscape 6 seems to "change" the user profiles in a way
>> that Beonex Communicator 0.6' (based on Mozilla 0.6) UI is messed up
>> (users report about a missing urlbar etc.), and differing default
>> prefs reset user prefs, so I try to make the profiles independant.
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