Everything natural and man made is subject to breaking. And if every
part of a system is in one container, failure of one part threatens the
utility of the entire system. There used to be "console" home
entertainment systems. Because of the difficulty of replacing or
upgrading one part, component systems replaced the console concept.
If all computer software is in one "bucket", trying to repair, work
around, upgrade an OS, apps, or data, is more difficult - and sometimes
scary - than if different types are partitioned off so as to reduce the
effect they have on each other. I am doing this message on a laptop.
The partitions are; two Win7, Apps, Data, and two Storage. If an OS has
an issue I can boot the other. I can replace an OS and use the existing
apps.
Here the primary subject is Mozilla. The apps are in the Apps
partition, and profiles and mail are in their own separate trees on the
Data partition. I can add or replace a SM version and have the new use
the existing profile.
To the degree that they are compatible, different versions can all use
the same profile. There was a time that I made serious use of OS/2. I
had OS/2 SM and Win SM using the same, literal profile files.
My primary profile began life in Netscape. That includes all it's data;
mail, bookmarks, passwords.
At some point there started being calls such as "I lost my mail". My
primary mail account has grown to about a hundred filters. I filter the
stuff I want to read, and that leaves the Inbox as mostly all of the
incoming junk, and easy to dispose of.
EXE install programs have a tendency to try to "freshen" everything.
And that sometimes results in a blank profile, and "lost" data.
Look at the screen shot linked below. I currently have nine SM versions
on the HDD. Clicking any one of those run objects calls the profile
manager. Whatever SM version I selected can then then select any one of
those profiles - each profile is dedicated to one or more SM versions.
All the listed profiles either use the same mail files, or a new blank
file.
I will delete most of those versions as I determine I no longer intend
to use them.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kGqMk5fA8YUR6PkJ7
Since it is possible for one SM version to make unwanted changes to a
profile maintained by another version, before running a version that
might cause an issue I run the profile backup routine shown below.
Repair is just delete/copy the backup back to the primary location.
This scheme also provides for multiple users the to use the same
computer and app, but with their own profile.
My mail has never been "lost".
Ray
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ProfileBak
del /s I:\Profiles\FF\cache2\entries\*.*
del /s I:\Profiles\Moz2X\cache2\entries\*.*
del /s I:\Profiles\Moz2XNoMail\cache2\entries\*.*
del /s I:\Profiles\Moz2XNoMailTest\cache2\entries\*.*
del /s I:\Profiles\Moz2-3X\cache2\entries\*.*
del /s I:\Profiles\Moz2-3XTest\cache2\entries\*.*
if not exist K:\Profiles md K:\Profiles
xcopy /s/y/d I:\Profiles K:\Profiles
MailBak
del /s I:\Data\cache2\entries\*.*
if not exist K:\Data md K:\Data
xcopy /s/y/d I:\Data K:\Data
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