Update to the problem Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
Zeb Carter wrote: I am in the process of setting up a new computer for a friend of mine - old computer running XP Home, new computer Win 7. Both have SM 2.0.8. I have created duplicate named profiles on the win 7 machine to match the XP machine. Working from a cloned copy of the XP drive, I have tried to copy the contents of the XP machine's profiles to their corresponding counterparts on the Win 7 system. Files are there but SM does not see the information there. In fact, of the 6 profiles, only one is actually working. When I try and open the new profiles, I get the dialogue asking me to create the new mail/news/RSS account(s). What am I doing wrong? I've copied the appropriate files into the proper locations but something is not working. Thanks in advance! Things are not going well. After having tried copying to the appropriate folders, deleting the .msf files, using MozBackup, creating new profiles and copying to them, things are still not working as they should. I still cannot see old mail in the inbox but did manage to get old sent mail working. Help!! Please. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
David Wilkinson wrote: Daniel wrote: With-in SM, go to Tools-Switch Profiles-Manage Profiles-Create Profile, give it a distinctive name, then on that screen click on Choose Folder, and find where you saved the old profiles location then select one level above that, so that the profile is a sub-folder of where you tell SM to look. i.e. If your profile files are in the directory C:\Personal\Internet\old_one\profile location, you would tell SM to look in C:\Personal\Internet\old_one Daniel: I am sure I did not do it that way. I chose the copied folder itself (e.g. profilename.salt), not its parent folder. Yep, so your profilname.salt level is equivalent to my old_one levelall the profile stuff is really contained in sub-directories. I was actually copying a profile from a Windows 7 machine to an XP machine, but I do not see that would make any difference I don't know if it matters either...wouldn't expect so! -- Daniel To get return e-mail address remove nospam. from address line From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, 16th Edition Amazing Anagrams Public Relations == Crap, built on lies Marriage == a grim era ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
Zeb Carter wrote: David Wilkinson wrote: Zeb Carter wrote: I am in the process of setting up a new computer for a friend of mine - old computer running XP Home, new computer Win 7. Both have SM 2.0.8. When I do this, I first close SeaMonkey on the old computer, and copy the entire profile folder (e.g. salt.profilename) to the new computer. Then I use the profile manager on the new computer to create a new profile with the same profile name and use Choose Folder to navigate to the copied profile. The profile manager is smart enough to realize that it should use the existing profile in that location, rather than creating a new profile in that location. I tried that today. I copied the profiles straight from the cloned drive to the appropriate folder in Win 7. Started SM, told it to create a new profile with the name of the profile I ad copied - SM created NEW profiles with the same name but a different random number sequence in front of the name. SM doesn't need to have the random number sequence in the profiles location, I think it a bit of a security measure. With-in SM, go to Tools-Switch Profiles-Manage Profiles-Create Profile, give it a distinctive name, then on that screen click on Choose Folder, and find where you saved the old profiles location then select one level above that, so that the profile is a sub-folder of where you tell SM to look. i.e. If your profile files are in the directory C:\Personal\Internet\old_one\profile location, you would tell SM to look in C:\Personal\Internet\old_one HTH -- Daniel To get return e-mail address remove nospam. from address line From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, 16th Edition Amazing Anagrams Public Relations == Crap, built on lies Marriage == a grim era ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
Daniel wrote: Zeb Carter wrote: David Wilkinson wrote: Zeb Carter wrote: I am in the process of setting up a new computer for a friend of mine - old computer running XP Home, new computer Win 7. Both have SM 2.0.8. When I do this, I first close SeaMonkey on the old computer, and copy the entire profile folder (e.g. salt.profilename) to the new computer. Then I use the profile manager on the new computer to create a new profile with the same profile name and use Choose Folder to navigate to the copied profile. The profile manager is smart enough to realize that it should use the existing profile in that location, rather than creating a new profile in that location. I tried that today. I copied the profiles straight from the cloned drive to the appropriate folder in Win 7. Started SM, told it to create a new profile with the name of the profile I ad copied - SM created NEW profiles with the same name but a different random number sequence in front of the name. SM doesn't need to have the random number sequence in the profiles location, I think it a bit of a security measure. With-in SM, go to Tools-Switch Profiles-Manage Profiles-Create Profile, give it a distinctive name, then on that screen click on Choose Folder, and find where you saved the old profiles location then select one level above that, so that the profile is a sub-folder of where you tell SM to look. i.e. If your profile files are in the directory C:\Personal\Internet\old_one\profile location, you would tell SM to look in C:\Personal\Internet\old_one HTH I'll try that. Is Moz Backup a good alternative to exporting and importing profiles between 2 PCs? Also, I can't seem to find the command line switches to use the migration wizard. I really do appreciate all the help folks! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
Daniel wrote: With-in SM, go to Tools-Switch Profiles-Manage Profiles-Create Profile, give it a distinctive name, then on that screen click on Choose Folder, and find where you saved the old profiles location then select one level above that, so that the profile is a sub-folder of where you tell SM to look. i.e. If your profile files are in the directory C:\Personal\Internet\old_one\profile location, you would tell SM to look in C:\Personal\Internet\old_one Daniel: I am sure I did not do it that way. I chose the copied folder itself (e.g. profilename.salt), not its parent folder. I was actually copying a profile from a Windows 7 machine to an XP machine, but I do not see that would make any difference -- David Wilkinson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
David Wilkinson wrote: Zeb Carter wrote: I am in the process of setting up a new computer for a friend of mine - old computer running XP Home, new computer Win 7. Both have SM 2.0.8. When I do this, I first close SeaMonkey on the old computer, and copy the entire profile folder (e.g. salt.profilename) to the new computer. Then I use the profile manager on the new computer to create a new profile with the same profile name and use Choose Folder to navigate to the copied profile. The profile manager is smart enough to realize that it should use the existing profile in that location, rather than creating a new profile in that location. I tried that today. I copied the profiles straight from the cloned drive to the appropriate folder in Win 7. Started SM, told it to create a new profile with the name of the profile I ad copied - SM created NEW profiles with the same name but a different random number sequence in front of the name. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
Zeb Carter wrote: I am in the process of setting up a new computer for a friend of mine - old computer running XP Home, new computer Win 7. Both have SM 2.0.8. When I do this, I first close SeaMonkey on the old computer, and copy the entire profile folder (e.g. salt.profilename) to the new computer. Then I use the profile manager on the new computer to create a new profile with the same profile name and use Choose Folder to navigate to the copied profile. The profile manager is smart enough to realize that it should use the existing profile in that location, rather than creating a new profile in that location. -- David Wilkinson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving profiles from XP to Win7
David Wilkinson wrote: When I do this, I first close SeaMonkey on the old computer, and copy the entire profile folder (e.g. salt.profilename) to the new computer. Then I use the profile manager on the new computer to create a new profile with the same profile name and use Choose Folder to navigate to the copied profile. Does current SM still use the shared Mozilla Registry file? If so, then I assume this is the correct procedure to restore profiles from a backup, correct? That is, do not bother backing up the shared registry file itself, simply do the above steps? Thanks, -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Moving profiles from XP to Win7
I am in the process of setting up a new computer for a friend of mine - old computer running XP Home, new computer Win 7. Both have SM 2.0.8. I have created duplicate named profiles on the win 7 machine to match the XP machine. Working from a cloned copy of the XP drive, I have tried to copy the contents of the XP machine's profiles to their corresponding counterparts on the Win 7 system. Files are there but SM does not see the information there. In fact, of the 6 profiles, only one is actually working. When I try and open the new profiles, I get the dialogue asking me to create the new mail/news/RSS account(s). What am I doing wrong? I've copied the appropriate files into the proper locations but something is not working. Thanks in advance! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
