Re: Where to store my profile??
Daniel wrote: I'm sure I read Wow64 Windows 7 in your user agent but cannot even find the line in that other message now, so who knows!! Migrated system. But I waited to the very last day in that August to do it. As I feared it was not pain free... -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: On 3/12/2017 2:21 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. Moving or duplicating SeaMonkey|Firefox|Thunderbird to and from Linux and Windows (or Mac) is very easy drag and drop affair. I have don it countless times. Sharing a profile dir is an issue regardless of the OS, but pathing issues is a real problem with dissimilar OSes because the the prefs.js records paths for some actions. Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Well actually it's Win10 on this box, but should not make a difference how profiles are managed have not changed in years. I'm sure I read Wow64 Windows 7 in your user agent but cannot even find the line in that other message now, so who knows!! Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? I've never bothered. Always did it old-school and just edit the profiles.ini But I did as you suggested and it work okay. Created a pristine profile in the directory I selected and updated the profiles.ini [Profile1] Name=Junk for demo IsRelative=0 Path=D:\foobar Thank you for trying. I'll mark you down as someone who knows what he's doing!! ;-) -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Er, Um, ... I mean "Go Dallas Cowboys!!" ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Daniel wrote: On 3/12/2017 2:21 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. Moving or duplicating SeaMonkey|Firefox|Thunderbird to and from Linux and Windows (or Mac) is very easy drag and drop affair. I have don it countless times. Sharing a profile dir is an issue regardless of the OS, but pathing issues is a real problem with dissimilar OSes because the the prefs.js records paths for some actions. Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Well actually it's Win10 on this box, but should not make a difference how profiles are managed have not changed in years. Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? I've never bothered. Always did it old-school and just edit the profiles.ini But I did as you suggested and it work okay. Created a pristine profile in the directory I selected and updated the profiles.ini [Profile1] Name=Junk for demo IsRelative=0 Path=D:\foobar No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen. I'd be very appreciative. -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Daniel, I didn't check if there is a bug yet. If not it needs to go into Bugzilla. But the remaining devs including me are swamped. This might take a long time till it gets fixed. FRG Bug reported https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422702 -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Er, Um, ... I mean "Go Dallas Cowboys!!" ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Daniel, I didn't check if there is a bug yet. If not it needs to go into Bugzilla. But the remaining devs including me are swamped. This might take a long time till it gets fixed. FRG I understand, Frank-Rainer, but at least it will be there!! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Er, Um, ... I mean "Go Dallas Cowboys!!" ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Felix Miata wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl composed on 2017-12-03 13:47 (UTC+0100): I am just doing some fixes for 2.55+ in a vm and there at least it seems to be a bit stubborn. If you create and select the folder your profile location will be overwritten. But if you create the folder and then change the profile name it works. Was able to create a profile D:\profiled\u5kls6wt.UserD1 and it shows in about:support . Don't think it is different in 2.49.1. This code hasn't been changed for years I think. I've used --ProfileManager on initial startup and rejected the default name and location for at least a decade, always creating a directory first to contain profiles where I want them, then pointing to that location and typing in a suitable profile name when the profile manager opens. I've not used the profile manager to add an additional a profile in at least as long. Once profiles.ini exists, it's simple to edit it, to add a profile, or relocate one, or change the name of one. Felix, I would appreciate it you could give it a try, even just to set yourself up a "Test" profile at some different hard disk location. ;-) -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Er, Um, ... I mean "Go Dallas Cowboys!!" ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I'm on Win 7 Pro (64-bit) too, using SM 2.49.1, and I did just as you said. And just as you would predict, it failed. I chose an external drive, and when I clicked the "Select Folder" button, I was returned to the previous dialog where it informed me that my profile would be stored in... exactly the default folder it had originally proposed. No matter how many times I "selected" the other location, SM ignored my selection and promised to save the profile just where it pleased. You need to select a folder on the drive, not the drive itself. The profile is created directly in the specified folder, not in a salt.name subfolder. That's what I found yesterday when I tried with SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on Windows Vista (sorry... should have mentioned in my response that I'd actually tried it on Windows!) OK, so the root is not allowed, even though the rest of the world thinks it's a folder too? OK, as Daniel requested and as you suggest, I tried a nonroot folder on my default HDD (BTW, Daniel, the external drive is also a "physical hard drive," not a virtual one). Result: This time SM accepted my selection. I also tried the root folder on my default HDD and was ignored as before. SM seems to have a root allergy. FWIW. Thank you, Paul. Maybe it's an intermittent thing, dependant on how you have you tongue or some such!! Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I'm on Win 7 Pro (64-bit) too, using SM 2.49.1, and I did just as you said. And just as you would predict, it failed. I chose an external drive, and when I clicked the "Select Folder" button, I was returned to the previous dialog where it informed me that my profile would be stored in... exactly the default folder it had originally proposed. No matter how many times I "selected" the other location, SM ignored my selection and promised to save the profile just where it pleased. You need to select a folder on the drive, not the drive itself. The profile is created directly in the specified folder, not in a salt.name subfolder. That's what I found yesterday when I tried with SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on Windows Vista (sorry... should have mentioned in my response that I'd actually tried it on Windows!) OK, so the root is not allowed, even though the rest of the world thinks it's a folder too? OK, as Daniel requested and as you suggest, I tried a nonroot folder on my default HDD (BTW, Daniel, the external drive is also a "physical hard drive," not a virtual one). Result: This time SM accepted my selection. I also tried the root folder on my default HDD and was ignored as before. SM seems to have a root allergy. FWIW. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Frank-Rainer Grahl composed on 2017-12-03 13:47 (UTC+0100): > I am just doing some fixes for 2.55+ in a vm and there at least it seems to > be > a bit stubborn. If you create and select the folder your profile location > will > be overwritten. But if you create the folder and then change the profile name > it works. Was able to create a profile D:\profiled\u5kls6wt.UserD1 and it > shows in about:support . > Don't think it is different in 2.49.1. This code hasn't been changed for > years > I think. I've used --ProfileManager on initial startup and rejected the default name and location for at least a decade, always creating a directory first to contain profiles where I want them, then pointing to that location and typing in a suitable profile name when the profile manager opens. I've not used the profile manager to add an additional a profile in at least as long. Once profiles.ini exists, it's simple to edit it, to add a profile, or relocate one, or change the name of one. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Daniel, I didn't check if there is a bug yet. If not it needs to go into Bugzilla. But the remaining devs including me are swamped. This might take a long time till it gets fixed. FRG Daniel wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: I am just doing some fixes for 2.55+ in a vm and there at least it seems to be a bit stubborn. If you create and select the folder your profile location will be overwritten. But if you create the folder and then change the profile name it works. Was able to create a profile D:\profiled\u5kls6wt.UserD1 and it shows in about:support . Don't think it is different in 2.49.1. This code hasn't been changed for years I think. FRG Daniel wrote: On 3/12/2017 2:21 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: ... Thank you also, Frank-Rainer. that's now three of us that have had problems. Frank-Rainer, is it worthwhile me going to Bugzilla and reporting this or would you and your connections be able to sort it without a Bug Report?? Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Daniel wrote: Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen. I'm on Win 7 Pro (64-bit) too, using SM 2.49.1, and I did just as you said. And just as you would predict, it failed. I chose an external drive, and when I clicked the "Select Folder" button, I was returned to the previous dialog where it informed me that my profile would be stored in... exactly the default folder it had originally proposed. No matter how many times I "selected" the other location, SM ignored my selection and promised to save the profile just where it pleased. You need to select a folder on the drive, not the drive itself. The profile is created directly in the specified folder, not in a salt.name subfolder. That's what I found yesterday when I tried with SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on Windows Vista (sorry... should have mentioned in my response that I'd actually tried it on Windows!) -- Mark. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Daniel wrote: Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen. I'm on Win 7 Pro (64-bit) too, using SM 2.49.1, and I did just as you said. And just as you would predict, it failed. I chose an external drive, and when I clicked the "Select Folder" button, I was returned to the previous dialog where it informed me that my profile would be stored in... exactly the default folder it had originally proposed. No matter how many times I "selected" the other location, SM ignored my selection and promised to save the profile just where it pleased. Great, I'm not going mad!! Paul, you mentioned trying an external drive, so could you please try to somewhere else, anywhere else, on your physical hard drive?? Ta. Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: I am just doing some fixes for 2.55+ in a vm and there at least it seems to be a bit stubborn. If you create and select the folder your profile location will be overwritten. But if you create the folder and then change the profile name it works. Was able to create a profile D:\profiled\u5kls6wt.UserD1 and it shows in about:support . Don't think it is different in 2.49.1. This code hasn't been changed for years I think. FRG Daniel wrote: On 3/12/2017 2:21 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. Moving or duplicating SeaMonkey|Firefox|Thunderbird to and from Linux and Windows (or Mac) is very easy drag and drop affair. I have don it countless times. Sharing a profile dir is an issue regardless of the OS, but pathing issues is a real problem with dissimilar OSes because the the prefs.js records paths for some actions. Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen. I'd be very appreciative. Thank you also, Frank-Rainer. that's now three of us that have had problems. Frank-Rainer, is it worthwhile me going to Bugzilla and reporting this or would you and your connections be able to sort it without a Bug Report?? Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
I am just doing some fixes for 2.55+ in a vm and there at least it seems to be a bit stubborn. If you create and select the folder your profile location will be overwritten. But if you create the folder and then change the profile name it works. Was able to create a profile D:\profiled\u5kls6wt.UserD1 and it shows in about:support . Don't think it is different in 2.49.1. This code hasn't been changed for years I think. FRG Daniel wrote: On 3/12/2017 2:21 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. Moving or duplicating SeaMonkey|Firefox|Thunderbird to and from Linux and Windows (or Mac) is very easy drag and drop affair. I have don it countless times. Sharing a profile dir is an issue regardless of the OS, but pathing issues is a real problem with dissimilar OSes because the the prefs.js records paths for some actions. Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen. I'd be very appreciative. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Daniel wrote: Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen. I'm on Win 7 Pro (64-bit) too, using SM 2.49.1, and I did just as you said. And just as you would predict, it failed. I chose an external drive, and when I clicked the "Select Folder" button, I was returned to the previous dialog where it informed me that my profile would be stored in... exactly the default folder it had originally proposed. No matter how many times I "selected" the other location, SM ignored my selection and promised to save the profile just where it pleased. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 11:59 PM, bdelmee wrote: Maybe this (thunderbird-related) article can help "How To Share Mail Between Windows and Linux" http://web.archive.org/web/20050207141558/http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/share_mail.html#step4 Thank you! Bugger!! Bugger!! Bugger!! In testing my problem, I had added a few extra profiles to my SeaMonkey so I thought I'd get rid of a few and managed to delete my main profile ... and, of course, I hadn't done a back up in quite a while! (Yes, I can hear you all yelling BACK-UP!! BACK-UP!! BACK-UP!!) I do have several, so just a matter of finding out which is most recent ... and how recent that is!! Oh Well!! Daniel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
On 3/12/2017 2:21 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. Moving or duplicating SeaMonkey|Firefox|Thunderbird to and from Linux and Windows (or Mac) is very easy drag and drop affair. I have don it countless times. Sharing a profile dir is an issue regardless of the OS, but pathing issues is a real problem with dissimilar OSes because the the prefs.js records paths for some actions. Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Could you please have a go at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder" button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard" screen has changed to the location you had selected?? No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen. I'd be very appreciative. -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Err!! ... Um!! .. I mean *Go Dallas Cowboys* !! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
On 2/12/2017 11:59 PM, bdelmee wrote: Maybe this (thunderbird-related) article can help "How To Share Mail Between Windows and Linux" http://web.archive.org/web/20050207141558/http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/share_mail.html#step4 Thank you! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Err!! ... Um!! .. I mean *Go Dallas Cowboys* !! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
On 3/12/2017 12:46 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Ok but didn't you report previously that the download manager doesn't show up when downloading a file? This is exactly what happened to me when I copied my Windows profile to Linux. Only after I deleted the last download dir pref with the Windows path it worked. FRG Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. FRG The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! Frank-Rainer you could well be right about my download manager problem but you guys *must* ;-) have done something or suggested something to fix my problem then. Now I'm wanting to know if anyone else on a Windows 7/10 computer is seeing my latest problem!! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Err!! ... Um!! .. I mean *Go Dallas Cowboys* !! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. Moving or duplicating SeaMonkey|Firefox|Thunderbird to and from Linux and Windows (or Mac) is very easy drag and drop affair. I have don it countless times. Sharing a profile dir is an issue regardless of the OS, but pathing issues is a real problem with dissimilar OSes because the the prefs.js records paths for some actions. -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Daniel wrote: I have been trying to set up my Linux SeaMonkey to use the same profile files as my Win7 SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on my Win E:\ drive. In doing this, I had stuffed up the location, you know, that bit where you select a location for the Profile and SeaMonkey puts the Profile in a folder *BELOW* that selected location!! This has resulted in my Windows SeaMonkey, when I boot up the Mail & News Screen, listing all the abook.mab, booklist.xml, blocklist-addons.json, bookmarkbackups, Cache, cache2, cert8.db, etc, etc, something like 50 files and folders showing up on-screen in my Win7 SeaMonkey e-mail account screen. No problem, I thought, its about time I had a new profile and then I could just copy over the required files and then, after some time, I could delete and remove all the old profiles and their files/folders. Or so I thought!! I started SeaMonkey, went to Tools->Switch Profiles, selected "Manage Profile" then "Create Profile" and created a new Profile. Of course, I like to install my Profiles where I want, on my E:\, so on the second screen, I selected "Choose Folder" and selected where I wanted the Profile on the E:\ drive. When I finished the Profile creation, I noticed the "Create Profile Wizard" screen showed that my "user settings, preferences and other user-related data" would be stored at C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default User. No problem, I thought, that's just where "they" store the extraneous part of the Profile. Then I went looking for my profile and it wasn't anywhere near where I had told SeaMonkey to put it! I then tried to create a new Profile directly under my E:\ and it didn't show up, but still the C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default User was showing up on the Create Profile Wizard. What am I doing wrong?? Or is the "Create Profile Wizard" broken in that it will not allow me to put a Profile where I want it?? Could someone else try creating a new Profile using the "Create Profile Wizard" on Win7 or, possible 10, in SeaMonkey 2.49.1?? The default folder for a new profile is "C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(salt).(Profile Name)". If you specify a profile folder, the profile is created directly in that folder - not in a (salt).(Profile Name) subfolder. It seems that you cannot specify the root of a drive as the profile folder; you have to specify a subfolder. You need to specify a folder such as "D:\Default User". The folder can be named however you like; it doesn't have to include a salt (gobble-de-gook) or the name of the profile. The salt is just a random string which gives a slight increase in security against certain types of vulnerability. If you want the profile directly to include the salt prefix, you need to specify it as part of the name e.g. "D:\12345678.Default User" (except that "12345678 is not particularly random; you could perhaps use whatever SeaMonkey proposed in the default profile folder name). Including the profile name as part of the folder name is not essential but helps you to know which folder is for which profile without having to look it up. -- Mark. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Ok but didn't you report previously that the download manager doesn't show up when downloading a file? This is exactly what happened to me when I copied my Windows profile to Linux. Only after I deleted the last download dir pref with the Windows path it worked. FRG Daniel wrote: On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. FRG The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Maybe this (thunderbird-related) article can help "How To Share Mail Between Windows and Linux" http://web.archive.org/web/20050207141558/http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/share_mail.html#step4 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. FRG The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a problem when I stuff things up!! I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Err!! ... Um!! .. I mean *Go Dallas Cowboys* !! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path with a Windows drive. FRG Daniel wrote: I have been trying to set up my Linux SeaMonkey to use the same profile files as my Win7 SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on my Win E:\ drive. In doing this, I had stuffed up the location, you know, that bit where you select a location for the Profile and SeaMonkey puts the Profile in a folder *BELOW* that selected location!! This has resulted in my Windows SeaMonkey, when I boot up the Mail & News Screen, listing all the abook.mab, booklist.xml, blocklist-addons.json, bookmarkbackups, Cache, cache2, cert8.db, etc, etc, something like 50 files and folders showing up on-screen in my Win7 SeaMonkey e-mail account screen. No problem, I thought, its about time I had a new profile and then I could just copy over the required files and then, after some time, I could delete and remove all the old profiles and their files/folders. Or so I thought!! I started SeaMonkey, went to Tools->Switch Profiles, selected "Manage Profile" then "Create Profile" and created a new Profile. Of course, I like to install my Profiles where I want, on my E:\, so on the second screen, I selected "Choose Folder" and selected where I wanted the Profile on the E:\ drive. When I finished the Profile creation, I noticed the "Create Profile Wizard" screen showed that my "user settings, preferences and other user-related data" would be stored at C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default User. No problem, I thought, that's just where "they" store the extraneous part of the Profile. Then I went looking for my profile and it wasn't anywhere near where I had told SeaMonkey to put it! I then tried to create a new Profile directly under my E:\ and it didn't show up, but still the C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default User was showing up on the Create Profile Wizard. What am I doing wrong?? Or is the "Create Profile Wizard" broken in that it will not allow me to put a Profile where I want it?? Could someone else try creating a new Profile using the "Create Profile Wizard" on Win7 or, possible 10, in SeaMonkey 2.49.1?? TIA ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Where to store my profile??
On 2/12/2017 6:04 PM, (Nuno Silva) wrote:
On 2017-12-02, Daniel wrote:
I have been trying to set up my Linux SeaMonkey to use the same
profile files as my Win7 SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on my Win E:\ drive. In
doing this, I had stuffed up the location, you know, that bit where
you select a location for the Profile and SeaMonkey puts the
Profile in a folder *BELOW* that selected location!! This has resulted
in my Windows SeaMonkey, when I boot up the Mail & News Screen,
listing all the abook.mab, booklist.xml, blocklist-addons.json,
bookmarkbackups, Cache, cache2, cert8.db, etc, etc, something like 50
files and folders showing up on-screen in my Win7 SeaMonkey e-mail
account screen.
No problem, I thought, its about time I had a new profile and then I
could just copy over the required files and then, after some time, I
could delete and remove all the old profiles and their
files/folders. Or so I thought!!
I started SeaMonkey, went to Tools->Switch Profiles, selected "Manage
Profile" then "Create Profile" and created a new Profile. Of course, I
like to install my Profiles where I want, on my E:\, so on the second
screen, I selected "Choose Folder" and selected where I wanted the
Profile on the E:\ drive.
When I finished the Profile creation, I noticed the "Create Profile
Wizard" screen showed that my "user settings, preferences and other
user-related data" would be stored at
C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default
User.
No problem, I thought, that's just where "they" store the extraneous
part of the Profile. Then I went looking for my profile and it wasn't
anywhere near where I had told SeaMonkey to put it! I then tried to
create a new Profile directly under my E:\ and it didn't show up,
but still the
C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default
User was showing up on the Create Profile Wizard.
What am I doing wrong?? Or is the "Create Profile Wizard" broken in
that it will not allow me to put a Profile where I want it?? Could
someone else try creating a new Profile using the "Create Profile
Wizard" on Win7 or, possible 10, in SeaMonkey 2.49.1??
TIA
I don't have a lot of experience with profile directories and the
profile manager, but it is probably worth a try to look at the
profiles.ini file (yours should be at
C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\profiles.ini
, I guess).
If Linux can read and write safely to the Windows filesystem, and this
is always mounted, you could consider even creating a symbolic link on
the linux side, that would "place" the windows profile folder in the
directory where the linux seamonkey expects to find the profiles:
ln -s
'/mnt/windows/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/(gobble-de-gook.Default
User'
$HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/windows.default
(All in one line; the single quotes will be needed if the actual path
does have a parenthesis or some space) and then adding windows.default
to profiles.ini on the linux side:
[ProfileN]
Name=windows
IsRelative=1
Path=windows.default
N is usually a sequential number (entries here are Profile0 and
Profile1). I don't know if it *must* be sequential, but just check what
entries do you have and pick the next "available" number. The
profiles.ini file on linux should be at
$HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini .
Going back to windows, about putting the profile somewhere else, you can
also set IsRelative=0 and set it to the path under E:\. This would be
the full path to the actual directory/folder containing all the profile
files ("(gobble-de-gook.Default User").
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file
When doing this close all seamonkey instances and, just to be safe, make
backups of profiles.ini and all your profiles.
Thank you for your response, Nuno. Perhaps I didn't explain myself
sensibly but I have, for years, shared the same profile between my Win7
and my assorted Linux versions. As Linux can "see" Windows Drives (but
Windows cannot "see" Linux mount points natively), I've always (well,
for a very long time) had my SeaMonkey Profile files on a Windows drive
and just set-up the Linux SeaMonkey Profile.ini to point directly to the
Windows Profile files. As I'm either in Windows7 or I'm in Linux, there
is no conflict
The situation I (tried to) describe above is just looking at creating a
new Windows7 SeaMonkey on a Windows7 Drive . at the moment!! ;-)
--
Daniel
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418
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Re: Where to store my profile??
On 2017-12-02, Daniel wrote:
> I have been trying to set up my Linux SeaMonkey to use the same
> profile files as my Win7 SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on my Win E:\ drive. In
> doing this, I had stuffed up the location, you know, that bit where
> you select a location for the Profile and SeaMonkey puts the
> Profile in a folder *BELOW* that selected location!! This has resulted
> in my Windows SeaMonkey, when I boot up the Mail & News Screen,
> listing all the abook.mab, booklist.xml, blocklist-addons.json,
> bookmarkbackups, Cache, cache2, cert8.db, etc, etc, something like 50
> files and folders showing up on-screen in my Win7 SeaMonkey e-mail
> account screen.
>
> No problem, I thought, its about time I had a new profile and then I
> could just copy over the required files and then, after some time, I
> could delete and remove all the old profiles and their
> files/folders. Or so I thought!!
>
> I started SeaMonkey, went to Tools->Switch Profiles, selected "Manage
> Profile" then "Create Profile" and created a new Profile. Of course, I
> like to install my Profiles where I want, on my E:\, so on the second
> screen, I selected "Choose Folder" and selected where I wanted the
> Profile on the E:\ drive.
>
> When I finished the Profile creation, I noticed the "Create Profile
> Wizard" screen showed that my "user settings, preferences and other
> user-related data" would be stored at
> C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default
> User.
>
> No problem, I thought, that's just where "they" store the extraneous
> part of the Profile. Then I went looking for my profile and it wasn't
> anywhere near where I had told SeaMonkey to put it! I then tried to
> create a new Profile directly under my E:\ and it didn't show up,
> but still the
> C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default
> User was showing up on the Create Profile Wizard.
>
> What am I doing wrong?? Or is the "Create Profile Wizard" broken in
> that it will not allow me to put a Profile where I want it?? Could
> someone else try creating a new Profile using the "Create Profile
> Wizard" on Win7 or, possible 10, in SeaMonkey 2.49.1??
>
> TIA
I don't have a lot of experience with profile directories and the
profile manager, but it is probably worth a try to look at the
profiles.ini file (yours should be at
C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\profiles.ini
, I guess).
If Linux can read and write safely to the Windows filesystem, and this
is always mounted, you could consider even creating a symbolic link on
the linux side, that would "place" the windows profile folder in the
directory where the linux seamonkey expects to find the profiles:
ln -s
'/mnt/windows/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/(gobble-de-gook.Default
User'
$HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/windows.default
(All in one line; the single quotes will be needed if the actual path
does have a parenthesis or some space) and then adding windows.default
to profiles.ini on the linux side:
[ProfileN]
Name=windows
IsRelative=1
Path=windows.default
N is usually a sequential number (entries here are Profile0 and
Profile1). I don't know if it *must* be sequential, but just check what
entries do you have and pick the next "available" number. The
profiles.ini file on linux should be at
$HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini .
Going back to windows, about putting the profile somewhere else, you can
also set IsRelative=0 and set it to the path under E:\. This would be
the full path to the actual directory/folder containing all the profile
files ("(gobble-de-gook.Default User").
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file
When doing this close all seamonkey instances and, just to be safe, make
backups of profiles.ini and all your profiles.
--
Nuno Silva
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I have been trying to set up my Linux SeaMonkey to use the same profile files as my Win7 SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on my Win E:\ drive. In doing this, I had stuffed up the location, you know, that bit where you select a location for the Profile and SeaMonkey puts the Profile in a folder *BELOW* that selected location!! This has resulted in my Windows SeaMonkey, when I boot up the Mail & News Screen, listing all the abook.mab, booklist.xml, blocklist-addons.json, bookmarkbackups, Cache, cache2, cert8.db, etc, etc, something like 50 files and folders showing up on-screen in my Win7 SeaMonkey e-mail account screen. No problem, I thought, its about time I had a new profile and then I could just copy over the required files and then, after some time, I could delete and remove all the old profiles and their files/folders. Or so I thought!! I started SeaMonkey, went to Tools->Switch Profiles, selected "Manage Profile" then "Create Profile" and created a new Profile. Of course, I like to install my Profiles where I want, on my E:\, so on the second screen, I selected "Choose Folder" and selected where I wanted the Profile on the E:\ drive. When I finished the Profile creation, I noticed the "Create Profile Wizard" screen showed that my "user settings, preferences and other user-related data" would be stored at C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default User. No problem, I thought, that's just where "they" store the extraneous part of the Profile. Then I went looking for my profile and it wasn't anywhere near where I had told SeaMonkey to put it! I then tried to create a new Profile directly under my E:\ and it didn't show up, but still the C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default User was showing up on the Create Profile Wizard. What am I doing wrong?? Or is the "Create Profile Wizard" broken in that it will not allow me to put a Profile where I want it?? Could someone else try creating a new Profile using the "Create Profile Wizard" on Win7 or, possible 10, in SeaMonkey 2.49.1?? TIA -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 Go Dallas Cowgirls!! Err!! ... Um!! .. I mean *Go Dallas Cowboys* !! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
