Paul wrote:
Hello,
I have been using seamonkey for ever and my computer is acting up and I
want to wipe the drive clean and start over, but I have hundreds of
passwords saved that I reference and have as automatic fillins for
certain sites.
Where is the password file located so I can copy it and re-insert it
after Im done reloading everything?
This is your chance to disassociate all internet apps from the OS. You
say you "have been using seamonkey for ever". My data files began life
in Netscape. Do yours go back that far? And those files have been used
on many computers by multiple versions of Win and OS/2. And, I have
never "lost" my email.
The trick is, I have never had the apps or data on a boot partition.
The apps are on an apps partition and the data is on a data partition.
I can reinstall or replace an OS and the most I need to do to the apps
is create a fresh run object (shortcut).
I also always have multiple versions of each app. I never replace an
app or OS until I an convinced the replacement is superior. So every
computer has multiple versions of Win and Mozilla and/or Mozilla clones.
The first thing you need to do is copy the entire profile - which is a
directory tree - to another partition of your choice, with the name of
your choice. Also copy the app tree to a place and name of your choice.
Then after you install Win, create an app shortcut with a
"-Profilemanager" run switch, which will open profile manager. Take SM
by the hand to where you copied the profile and tell SM to use it.
On desktops, I now have only OSs on one HDD and only apps and data on
another HDD. I have clones of each. If one dies, I can swap in the OS
HDD and the data doesn't know the difference, or swap the apps/data HDD
ans the OSs do not know the difference.
Ray
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