Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-07 Thread Simon P. Lucy
At 07:50 06/02/2001 -0700, Jerry Baker wrote: >Daniel Veditz wrote: > > > > mozver.dat and mozregistry.dat don't need to be deleted. This is a myth > > promulgated by the same folks who thump the side of their TV to fix the > > reception. Mozilla will work just fine even if these files happen to b

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Daniel Veditz wrote: >Peter Lairo wrote: >> >> Christopher Jahn wrote: >> >> > And it came to pass that Peter Lairo wrote: >> >> I have been installing the nightly builds every day for >> >> the past >> >> 10+ weeks by simply copying the new files over the old >>

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel Veditz
Mark Hammond wrote: > > Daniel Veditz wrote: > > > mozver.dat and mozregistry.dat don't need to be deleted. This is a myth > > [] Mozilla will work just fine even if these files happen to be > > corrupted, which is unlikely in any case. > > Unfortunately, it _is_ true that this file must be

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Hammond
Daniel Veditz wrote: > mozver.dat and mozregistry.dat don't need to be deleted. This is a myth > promulgated by the same folks who thump the side of their TV to fix the > reception. Mozilla will work just fine even if these files happen to be > corrupted, which is unlikely in any case. Unfortun

DIV: Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-06 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Jerry Baker wrote: > > Daniel Veditz wrote: > > > > mozver.dat and mozregistry.dat don't need to be deleted. This is a myth > > promulgated by the same folks who thump the side of their TV to fix the > > reception. Mozilla will work just fine even if these files happen to be > > corrupted, which

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-06 Thread Jerry Baker
Daniel Veditz wrote: > > mozver.dat and mozregistry.dat don't need to be deleted. This is a myth > promulgated by the same folks who thump the side of their TV to fix the > reception. Mozilla will work just fine even if these files happen to be > corrupted, which is unlikely in any case. > > -Da

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-05 Thread Daniel Veditz
Peter Lairo wrote: > > Christopher Jahn wrote: > > > And it came to pass that Peter Lairo wrote: > >> I have been installing the nightly builds every day for the past > >> 10+ weeks by simply copying the new files over the old ones. > >> Occasionally, I will delete the mozilla directory

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-05 Thread Peter Lairo
Christopher Jahn wrote: > And it came to pass that Peter Lairo wrote: >> I have been installing the nightly builds every day for the past >> 10+ weeks by simply copying the new files over the old ones. >> Occasionally, I will delete the mozilla directory and copy >> the new files into

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Peter Lairo wrote: >I have been installing the nightly builds every day for the >past 10+ weeks by simply copying the new files over the old >ones. Occasionally, I will delete the mozilla directory and >copy the new files into a new directory. > >Unfortunately, it seems t

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-01-31 Thread Peter Lairo
Roy R. Campbell, Jr. wrote: > I generally update with each nightly, too, on Win98. I download the > "mozilla-win32-installer.exe" and rename it to something like > "mozilla-012720-installer.exe" (for the nightly build of 1/27, for > example). This way I can keep a few nightlies on hand, in c

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-01-30 Thread juanto cabronito
I am in the same perdicament... upgrade nightlies nightly (heh), but i fear that some of my profile has been corrupted over time. i'm having many problems which i believe are profile related, because i don't get the same problems on other machines. for example, none of my page settin

Re: Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-01-30 Thread Roy R. Campbell, Jr.
I generally update with each nightly, too, on Win98. I download the "mozilla-win32-installer.exe" and rename it to something like "mozilla-012720-installer.exe" (for the nightly build of 1/27, for example). This way I can keep a few nightlies on hand, in case one breaks something that used t

Fresh Installs of Nightlies - keeping profiles clean without reentering all info?

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Lairo
I have been installing the nightly builds every day for the past 10+ weeks by simply copying the new files over the old ones. Occasionally, I will delete the mozilla directory and copy the new files into a new directory. Unfortunately, it seems that there are aspects of mozilla that are not b