Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
Keith Whaley schrieb: Note: I DO have a month old copy of SM 1.1.18 on a Time Machine backup. I suppose that would be acceptable, but having never done it, I don't know how complicated that might be, getting it to REPLACE the old version... From my own experience with Time Machine, restoring the program file itself should be very easy. Just go to your Program Folder, start Time Machine, select Seamonkey, and restore. (To play save, you can keep both in which case the current one is renamed and the old one restored in its place. To revert, just delete the restored one, rename the originally current one back, and done.) However, if your profile is messed up, this might not help at all. It's however easy, quick, and should not cause further problems - give it a try. (Installing the same version again by dragging it into the Program Folder should have practically the same effect.) If the profile is messed up, one could try a manual merge of the Time Machine backup and the current one. I fear, it'd need very good knowledge of SM to merge the profiles so you a) get the UI, extensions, etc. working again and b) keep your personal data on the latest level. - Good luck! BR/Philipp ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
Keith Whaley schrieb: I happen to LIKE SM 1.1.18 Should I choose to go to 1.1.19 No matter, you are risking your privacy and security every day by using any SeaMonkey 1.x version, whichever one that is. Robert Kaiser -- Note that any statements of mine - no matter how passionate - are never meant to be offensive but very often as food for thought or possible arguments that we as a community needs answers to. And most of the time, I even appreciate irony and fun! :) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
Robert Kaiser wrote: Keith Whaley schrieb: I happen to LIKE SM 1.1.18 Should I choose to go to 1.1.19 No matter, you are risking your privacy and security every day by using any SeaMonkey 1.x version, whichever one that is. Robert Kaiser Feature-wise, it's about user preference. I'm already thinking I may not upgrade to the 2.1.x series, just from what I'm reading so far...but we'll see. There are things I prefer about SM 1.1.19 myself - particularly the Helper App editing interface. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
Keith Whaley wrote: I have a Mac, with OS 10.6.7, use SM v. 1.1.18 for communicating and a little internet visiting. Up until yesterday, that is. I fell for an offer to use a pop-up 3rd party Mac cleaner-upperer and it screwed up my slow but still working SM 1.1.18. In the process, it 'cleaned up' stuff from my SM folder(s) that were essential to proper operation. For instance, If I'm in Mail Newsgroups, I cannot access Navigator from menu bar's Window/Navigator. When pressed, the Navigator button does nothing. It's not hooked up. However, if I press Apple/Restart, I get a small window that says: Reference Error: inforssHeadline Display is not defined. I click on that warning window's Restart and the Mail window appears. It's obvious some thing critical had been removed/deleted and it crippled my SM. I happen to LIKE SM 1.1.18, and would like to keep it for a while. I have SM v. 2.0.13 on tap, and have used it, but...I'd like to stay with my older version for a while. Should I choose to go to 1.1.19, is there a way I can UPGRADE my 1.1.18, instead of downloading the full version and setting it up as tho' it was totally new to me, which means I'd have to find ways to move a lot of messages, bookmarks, etc., etc over. The only choice I see at the moment is to bite the bullet, download the big version and pretend I've never had a SM to use. Note: I DO have a month old copy of SM 1.1.18 on a Time Machine backup. I suppose that would be acceptable, but having never done it, I don't know how complicated that might be, getting it to REPLACE the old version... Should I call the Mac Geek Squad instead? keith whaley I'm a Mac user...what I would do is drag your old Profile and Mozilla folders out of their current locations and onto your Desktop. Then install SM 1.1.19 and let it do its thing...then go back and drag/replace contents of the new default Profile folders with the required corresponding ones from your backup - Mail/News, Addresses, etc. ...and never use clean up apps of any kind...I find they all seem to do more damage than good. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
Robert Kaiser wrote: Keith Whaley schrieb: I happen to LIKE SM 1.1.18 Should I choose to go to 1.1.19 No matter, you are risking your privacy and security every day by using any SeaMonkey 1.x version, whichever one that is. Robert Kaiser Okay, okay. I understand. I ran into some rough spots with .18 and .19, and got tired of messing with it all, so I closed all others and opened SM 2.0.13. That's not quite 2 months old. Ought to be okay, right? :-) Finally got it set up correctly...almost...and am happy with it. At least I'm getting my mails now. Now I've got to look into transferring old message folders into SM 2.0.13 Inbox folders. I have a number of them I don't want to lose. Thanks for your help! And patience. g keith whaley ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
On 5/15/2011 9:39 PM, keith_w wrote: I ran into some rough spots with .18 and .19, and got tired of messing with it all, so I closed all others and opened SM 2.0.13. That's not quite 2 months old. Ought to be okay, right? :-) Much better, but 2.0.14 is our latest security update, and soon we'll have 2.1 out, which will be even better in Security Updates. Expect a a Major Update offer to 2.1 in the next month, and once 2.1 is out, we'll likely be announcing 2.0.x as End Of Life as well. (Since the Gecko it is based on was *just* marked EOL as well) -- ~Justin Wood (Callek) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
Rufus wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Keith Whaley schrieb: I happen to LIKE SM 1.1.18 Should I choose to go to 1.1.19 No matter, you are risking your privacy and security every day by using any SeaMonkey 1.x version, whichever one that is. Robert Kaiser Feature-wise, it's about user preference. I'm already thinking I may not upgrade to the 2.1.x series, just from what I'm reading so far...but we'll see. There are things I prefer about SM 1.1.19 myself - particularly the Helper App editing interface. Yes, over the years a lot of the progress from version to version hasn't been progreess for many of us. The devs keep taking a lot of the good stuff out to prevent ordinary users from hurting themselves. As a result, many of us have become hamstrung and unable to easily tweak things as we used to be able to do. Progress. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Alzheimer's advantage: New friends every day. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
I have a Mac, with OS 10.6.7, use SM v. 1.1.18 for communicating and a little internet visiting. Up until yesterday, that is. I fell for an offer to use a pop-up 3rd party Mac cleaner-upperer and it screwed up my slow but still working SM 1.1.18. In the process, it 'cleaned up' stuff from my SM folder(s) that were essential to proper operation. For instance, If I'm in Mail Newsgroups, I cannot access Navigator from menu bar's Window/Navigator. When pressed, the Navigator button does nothing. It's not hooked up. However, if I press Apple/Restart, I get a small window that says: Reference Error: inforssHeadline Display is not defined. I click on that warning window's Restart and the Mail window appears. It's obvious some thing critical had been removed/deleted and it crippled my SM. I happen to LIKE SM 1.1.18, and would like to keep it for a while. I have SM v. 2.0.13 on tap, and have used it, but...I'd like to stay with my older version for a while. Should I choose to go to 1.1.19, is there a way I can UPGRADE my 1.1.18, instead of downloading the full version and setting it up as tho' it was totally new to me, which means I'd have to find ways to move a lot of messages, bookmarks, etc., etc over. The only choice I see at the moment is to bite the bullet, download the big version and pretend I've never had a SM to use. Note: I DO have a month old copy of SM 1.1.18 on a Time Machine backup. I suppose that would be acceptable, but having never done it, I don't know how complicated that might be, getting it to REPLACE the old version... Should I call the Mac Geek Squad instead? keith whaley ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Technique 4 replacing an older Mac version of SM...
Interviewed by CNN on 14/05/2011 18:35, Keith Whaley told the world: I have a Mac, with OS 10.6.7, use SM v. 1.1.18 for communicating and a little internet visiting. Up until yesterday, that is. I fell for an offer to use a pop-up 3rd party Mac cleaner-upperer and it screwed up my slow but still working SM 1.1.18. In the process, it 'cleaned up' stuff from my SM folder(s) that were essential to proper operation. For instance, If I'm in Mail Newsgroups, I cannot access Navigator from menu bar's Window/Navigator. When pressed, the Navigator button does nothing. It's not hooked up. However, if I press Apple/Restart, I get a small window that says: Reference Error: inforssHeadline Display is not defined. I click on that warning window's Restart and the Mail window appears. It's obvious some thing critical had been removed/deleted and it crippled my SM. I happen to LIKE SM 1.1.18, and would like to keep it for a while. I have SM v. 2.0.13 on tap, and have used it, but...I'd like to stay with my older version for a while. Should I choose to go to 1.1.19, is there a way I can UPGRADE my 1.1.18, instead of downloading the full version and setting it up as tho' it was totally new to me, which means I'd have to find ways to move a lot of messages, bookmarks, etc., etc over. The only choice I see at the moment is to bite the bullet, download the big version and pretend I've never had a SM to use. Note: I DO have a month old copy of SM 1.1.18 on a Time Machine backup. I suppose that would be acceptable, but having never done it, I don't know how complicated that might be, getting it to REPLACE the old version... Should I call the Mac Geek Squad instead? I have no experience with Seamonkey on Macs, but: In my experience, and from everything I know about how every Mozilla product dating back to Netscape 1.0 works, reinstalling the product over the existing copy should *not* change your settings in any way, nor it should affect your profiles (so your saved mails should still be available and such). So, all you have to do is install 1.1.18 (or 1.1.19) normally. It should upgrade your existing copy of Seamonkey with fresh files and, theoretically (if missing files are actually the problem) solve your problem. If you want to be safe, backup your profile first. Also, regarding that Time Machine backup... if you don't know what you are doing, there's some risk of overwriting your profile files with an older version. You really don't want to have your mail folders replaced with a month-old version -- you would lose all messages you received since then. Time machine is a great tool, but you have to know what you are restoring. Restoring program files is usually OK, restoring user files should be done with extreme caution. And... think seriously about moving to Seamonkey 2.x. The 1.x branch has a number of known issues, including security issues, which are NOT going to be fixed. It's a dead branch. In a few days, with the official launch of SM 2.1, it will be *two* branches old. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Palantír. *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.14 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
