Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-11 Thread  Mr . Ed  via support-seamonkey
On 11/10/2020 9:21 PM, Ray Davison wrote:  Mr. Ed  via support-seamonkey wrote: Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? A long time ago, wh

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-11 Thread Don Spam's Reckless Son
Ray Davison wrote:  Mr. Ed  via support-seamonkey wrote: Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? A long time ago, when storage space was expensive, it might have been reasonable to compress backups.  But now that storage space is cheap,

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-10 Thread Ray Davison
 Mr. Ed  via support-seamonkey wrote: Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? A long time ago, when storage space was expensive, it might have been reasonable to compress backups. But now that storage space is cheap, why have a backu

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-04 Thread Daniel
NFN Smith wrote on 04/11/20 03:26: Daniel wrote: If one were to use MozBackUp on my SeaMonkey 2.49.5 profile, prior to updating to SM 2.53.4, where would MozBackUp put the profiles back-up file?? If I remember correctly, that's something you can choose in the UI. If I'm making backups

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-03 Thread NFN Smith
Daniel wrote: If one were to use MozBackUp on my SeaMonkey 2.49.5 profile, prior to updating to SM 2.53.4, where would MozBackUp put the profiles back-up file?? If I remember correctly, that's something you can choose in the UI. If I'm making backups by simply copying the profiles folder

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-02 Thread Daniel
s becoming increasingly difficult to do a partial data restore from a backup, without risking loss of data. I believe that work on MozBackup stopped sometime around Firefox 50 (give or take a couple of versions), but before changes happened around Firefox 54 that ended up killing backward com

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-02 Thread Danny Kile
cult to do a partial data restore from a backup, without risking loss of data. I believe that work on MozBackup stopped sometime around Firefox 50 (give or take a couple of versions), but before changes happened around Firefox 54 that ended up killing backward compatibility of profiles,

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-02 Thread NFN Smith
rtial data restore from a backup, without risking loss of data. I believe that work on MozBackup stopped sometime around Firefox 50 (give or take a couple of versions), but before changes happened around Firefox 54 that ended up killing backward compatibility of profiles, and both Thunderbird and

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-11-01 Thread Don Spam's Reckless Son
Danny Kile wrote:  Mr. Ed  wrote: Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? I still use it on 2.53 and 2.54. I do not see why it would not work, all is does is take you profile and zip and compress is in to a single file. It does

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-10-12 Thread NFN Smith
to partial recoveries. Using MozBackup to copy a profile to a new machine may have minimal risk, if you're not asking it to do more than write/read to a .ZIP archive. In any case, the place you want to be careful about is overwriting existing files. To me, the risk of data loss may be greater

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-10-12 Thread Danny Kile
 Mr. Ed  wrote: Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? I still use it on 2.53 and 2.54. I do not see why it would not work, all is does is take you profile and zip and compress is in to a single file. It does allow you to decide wan

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-10-10 Thread  Mr . Ed  via support-seamonkey
On 10/10/2020 1:48 PM, NFN Smith wrote:  Mr. Ed  wrote: Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? If you're referri

Re: MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-10-10 Thread NFN Smith
 Mr. Ed  wrote: Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? If you're referring to http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ , that one has been abandoned since 2012. That's before Mozilla went to Rapid Release for Firefox, and it's my und

MozBackup-1.5.2 & SeaMonkey

2020-10-10 Thread  Mr . Ed  via support-seamonkey
Anyone still using "MozBackup-1.5.2-beta1-EN" for back up in the 2.50.x SeaMonkey's? -- "This is America! You can't make a horse testify against himself!" -Mister Ed ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonk

Re: Mozbackup to move SeaMonkey to new machine

2018-02-10 Thread NFN Smith
Lee wrote: Is there any way to move the extensions? I have a number of converted ones and Stylish has several different user styles. It will be slow doing to have to install each one and convert the ones that need it and copy the codes for User Styles. Rather than use mozbackup, I've always

Re: Mozbackup to move SeaMonkey to new machine

2018-02-10 Thread Lee
On 2/10/18, Desiree <melel...@medscape.com> wrote: > Earlier I used Mozbackup to move Thunderbird 52.5.2 to my new Win 10 > machine. It worked flawlessly (unlike Mozilla's instructions which > failed). > > Just now, I used Mozbackup to move SeaMonkey 2.48 (yes, I know there

Mozbackup to move SeaMonkey to new machine

2018-02-10 Thread Desiree
Earlier I used Mozbackup to move Thunderbird 52.5.2 to my new Win 10 machine. It worked flawlessly (unlike Mozilla's instructions which failed). Just now, I used Mozbackup to move SeaMonkey 2.48 (yes, I know there is a newer version and I will update) to Windows 10. It moved everything

Re: MozBackUp Question...

2016-07-09 Thread Daniel
On 9/07/2016 12:38 AM, Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/8/2016 at 5:36 AM, Daniel's prodigious digits fired off: On 8/07/2016 12:18 AM, Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/7/2016 at 7:50 AM, Jim Dell's prodigious digits fired off: EE wrote: SamuelS wrote: Hello all, Having a challenge with MozBackUp - Get an error

Re: MozBackUp Question...

2016-07-08 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/8/2016 at 5:36 AM, Daniel's prodigious digits fired off: On 8/07/2016 12:18 AM, Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/7/2016 at 7:50 AM, Jim Dell's prodigious digits fired off: EE wrote: SamuelS wrote: Hello all, Having a challenge with MozBackUp - Get an error that indicates not authorized to write

Re: MozBackUp Question...

2016-07-08 Thread Daniel
On 8/07/2016 12:18 AM, Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/7/2016 at 7:50 AM, Jim Dell's prodigious digits fired off: EE wrote: SamuelS wrote: Hello all, Having a challenge with MozBackUp - Get an error that indicates not authorized to write file to disk. I have removed it and reinstalled. Cannot figure

Re: MozBackUp Question...

2016-07-07 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/7/2016 at 7:50 AM, Jim Dell's prodigious digits fired off: EE wrote: SamuelS wrote: Hello all, Having a challenge with MozBackUp - Get an error that indicates not authorized to write file to disk. I have removed it and reinstalled. Cannot figure out exactly what it is. I have tried

Re: MozBackUp Question...

2016-07-07 Thread Jim Dell
EE wrote: SamuelS wrote: Hello all, Having a challenge with MozBackUp - Get an error that indicates not authorized to write file to disk. I have removed it and reinstalled. Cannot figure out exactly what it is. I have tried running it as admin. Any ideas or suggestions? Since this program

Re: MozBackUp Question...

2016-07-06 Thread EE
SamuelS wrote: Hello all, Having a challenge with MozBackUp - Get an error that indicates not authorized to write file to disk. I have removed it and reinstalled. Cannot figure out exactly what it is. I have tried running it as admin. Any ideas or suggestions? Since this program is no longer

Re: MozBackUp Question...

2016-06-20 Thread NFN Smith
SamuelS wrote: Having a challenge with MozBackUp - Get an error that indicates not authorized to write file to disk. I have removed it and reinstalled. Cannot figure out exactly what it is. I have tried running it as admin. Any ideas or suggestions? Since this program is no longer supported

Re: Using Mozbackup 1.5.1 for Seamonkey 2.38 on a Win 10 PC

2015-10-13 Thread W3BNR
On 10/11/2015 5:41 PM, hg...@roadrunner.com wrote: > Mozbackup worked perfectly with Win 7, but now that I've upgraded to Win 10, > Mozbackup gives me an error message after I try to back up that the backup I > created is not valid. Is there an update for Mozbackup that will hel

Using Mozbackup 1.5.1 for Seamonkey 2.38 on a Win 10 PC

2015-10-11 Thread hg...@roadrunner.com
Mozbackup worked perfectly with Win 7, but now that I've upgraded to Win 10, Mozbackup gives me an error message after I try to back up that the backup I created is not valid. Is there an update for Mozbackup that will help it work with Win 10 or is there a workaround? Thanks

Re: Using Mozbackup 1.5.1 for Seamonkey 2.38 on a Win 10 PC

2015-10-11 Thread S Slicer
hg...@roadrunner.com wrote: Mozbackup worked perfectly with Win 7, but now that I've upgraded to Win 10, Mozbackup gives me an error message after I try to back up that the backup I created is not valid. Is there an update for Mozbackup that will help it work with Win 10

Re: MozBackup

2014-09-23 Thread Allen
NoOp wrote: On 09/03/2014 10:00 AM, W3BNR wrote: On 9/3/2014 12:13 PM NoOp submitted the following: On 08/31/2014 03:33 AM, Ed wrote: On 8/30/2014 8:56 PM Mike C submitted the following: Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got

Re: MozBackup

2014-09-03 Thread NoOp
On 08/31/2014 03:33 AM, Ed wrote: On 8/30/2014 8:56 PM Mike C submitted the following: Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick and sensing impending doom, I had the presence of mind to run MozBackup and get the backup file

Re: MozBackup

2014-09-03 Thread W3BNR
On 9/3/2014 12:13 PM NoOp submitted the following: On 08/31/2014 03:33 AM, Ed wrote: On 8/30/2014 8:56 PM Mike C submitted the following: Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick and sensing impending doom, I had

Re: MozBackup

2014-09-03 Thread NoOp
On 09/03/2014 10:00 AM, W3BNR wrote: On 9/3/2014 12:13 PM NoOp submitted the following: On 08/31/2014 03:33 AM, Ed wrote: On 8/30/2014 8:56 PM Mike C submitted the following: Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick

Re: MozBackup

2014-08-31 Thread Ed
On 8/30/2014 8:56 PM Mike C submitted the following: Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick and sensing impending doom, I had the presence of mind to run MozBackup and get the backup file off onto a thumb drive before

Re: MozBackup

2014-08-30 Thread Mike C
Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick and sensing impending doom, I had the presence of mind to run MozBackup and get the backup file off onto a thumb drive before the Windows 7 OS became so corrupted that a restore from

Re: MozBackup

2014-08-30 Thread Ed Mullen
Mike C pounded out : Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick and sensing impending doom, I had the presence of mind to run MozBackup and get the backup file off onto a thumb drive before the Windows 7 OS became so corrupted

Re: MozBackup

2014-08-30 Thread Mike C
Ed Mullen wrote: Mike C pounded out : Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick and sensing impending doom, I had the presence of mind to run MozBackup and get the backup file off onto a thumb drive before the Windows 7 OS

MozBackup

2014-08-28 Thread Allen
I had a very good experience with MozBackup last week. My laptop got very sick and sensing impending doom, I had the presence of mind to run MozBackup and get the backup file off onto a thumb drive before the Windows 7 OS became so corrupted that a restore from the original disks became

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-02 Thread Ed Mullen
Larry S. wrote: Ed Mullen wrote: proper backup program you can retrieve and restore anything from a whole drive, a folder (e.g. a Mozilla profile) to a single file That detail of recovery seems to be beyond that offered by the programs I've looked at (but still looking). Whole drive, yes.

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-02 Thread Ed Mullen
should only take a few minutes over a wired network. Fighting with MozBackup + SeaMonkey only seems to make sense, to me, with regard to moving a profile from one computer to another. My main system and laptop are both running Win 7 and the drives are partioned exactly the same, exact same

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-02 Thread Ray Davison
Ian Jackson wrote: I reckoned that a simple the way of persuading MozBackup Restore to give you only the profile you wanted might be to prevent it from having access to the current profile. If all you want is to be able to use a previous profile if your current one becomes corrupted you

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-01 Thread cyberzen
Le 26/02/2014 18:23, Ian Jackson a écrit : With TB, it certainly does what it should do - ie replace the current profile with the backup profile. With SM, it seems to be merging the two profiles. I suggest to read carefully the documentation http://kb.mozillazine.org/MozBackup -- cyberzen

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
. I suggest to read carefully the documentation http://kb.mozillazine.org/MozBackup If you mean RTFM, I've already done that (albeit fairly quickly) - but I can't see any obvious indication as to why restoring a SM backup appears to merge the backup profile with the existing profile, while

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-01 Thread Ed Mullen
the two profiles. I suggest to read carefully the documentation http://kb.mozillazine.org/MozBackup If you mean RTFM, I've already done that (albeit fairly quickly) - but I can't see any obvious indication as to why restoring a SM backup appears to merge the backup profile with the existing

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-01 Thread Larry S.
Ed Mullen wrote: proper backup program you can retrieve and restore anything from a whole drive, a folder (e.g. a Mozilla profile) to a single file That detail of recovery seems to be beyond that offered by the programs I've looked at (but still looking). Whole drive, yes. Sometimes an

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-01 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Larry S. wrote: Ed Mullen wrote: proper backup program you can retrieve and restore anything from a whole drive, a folder (e.g. a Mozilla profile) to a single file That detail of recovery seems to be beyond that offered by the programs I've looked at (but still looking). Whole drive, yes.

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-03-01 Thread Trane Francks
a few minutes over a wired network. Fighting with MozBackup + SeaMonkey only seems to make sense, to me, with regard to moving a profile from one computer to another. -- / // Trane Franckstr...@gol.comTokyo, Japan // Practice random

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-02-26 Thread Ian Jackson
of the tests involved using MozBackup to back up a brand new virgin SM ('as installed'), the importing a load of WLM emails. I then used MozBackup again to back up the well-populated SM. As result, I had two .pvc backup files for SM - one around 350kB, and the other around 800MB. To try to get back

Re: MozBackup problem with SeaMonkey (2.24)?

2014-02-25 Thread cyberzen
Le 25/02/2014 11:24, Ian Jackson a écrit : After modifying the install.rdf file, I've now I've got ImportExportTools working with SeaMonkey, so I've been playing at importing and exporting. One of the tests involved using MozBackup to back up a brand new virgin SM ('as installed

Re: mozbackup and discussions of same

2011-02-26 Thread Mike C
sean bean wrote: On 2/24/2011 6:56 AM, Joe Rotello previously wrote the following...:: RE: mozbackup Seeing that Mozbackup, in this case for Windows, is being mentioned more often in the Digest... We might be advised that Mozbackup, locations at: http://kb.mozillazine.org/MozBackup

Re: mozbackup and discussions of same

2011-02-24 Thread sean bean
On 2/24/2011 6:56 AM, Joe Rotello previously wrote the following...:: RE: mozbackup Seeing that Mozbackup, in this case for Windows, is being mentioned more often in the Digest... We might be advised that Mozbackup, locations at: http://kb.mozillazine.org/MozBackup and the Download Homepage

HOW do you RESTORE a profile with MozBackup ?

2010-08-31 Thread DoctorBill
After I recovered my system without MozBackup's restore, because I couldn't figure out how to use it, I NOW want to ask how do you restore with it ? Start it up. Click Next. Choose Restore a Profile (click button). Click on (Highlight) Mozilla #.#.#.#pre Click on Next. Now what exactly (step by

MozBackup

2010-07-23 Thread GC
I want to use Mozbackup to transfer profiles from Seamonkey on one computer to a second computer. When I start it up, it only offers to backup my default profile and does not see the other two. Can I get it to back up all my profiles? gordoncr

Re: MozBackup

2010-07-23 Thread Jay Garcia
On 23.07.2010 07:04, GC wrote: --- Original Message --- I want to use Mozbackup to transfer profiles from Seamonkey on one computer to a second computer. When I start it up, it only offers to backup my default profile and does not see the other two. Can I get it to back up all my