Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-18 Thread NFN Smith
Ray Davison wrote: Daniel wrote: So, if I had my profile at H:\here\there\anywhere\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles would the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey command locate my Profile?? Putting profiles anywhere you want is easy and does not require editing any existing files.

Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-18 Thread Daniel
NFN Smith wrote on 18/3/21 2:26 am: Dirk Fieldhouse wrote: On 17/03/2021 06:12, Daniel wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote on 16/3/21 11:03 pm: ...> %APPDATA% is an environmental variable in Windows like $HOME is for Linux. In Windows the profile is in a hidden directory off of the user directory 

Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-17 Thread Ray Davison
Daniel wrote: So, if I had my profile at H:\here\there\anywhere\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles would the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey command locate my Profile?? Putting profiles anywhere you want is easy and does not require editing any existing files. It helps if you

Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-17 Thread NFN Smith
Dirk Fieldhouse wrote: On 17/03/2021 06:12, Daniel wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote on 16/3/21 11:03 pm: ...> %APPDATA% is an environmental variable in Windows like $HOME is for Linux. In Windows the profile is in a hidden directory off of the user directory 

Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-17 Thread Dirk Fieldhouse
On 17/03/2021 06:12, Daniel wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote on 16/3/21 11:03 pm: ...> %APPDATA% is an environmental variable in Windows like $HOME is for Linux. In Windows the profile is in a hidden directory off of the user directory  C:\Users\USERNAME\Appdata\Mozilla\SeaMonkey whereas in

Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-17 Thread Daniel
Jonathan N. Little wrote on 16/3/21 11:03 pm: Daniel wrote: Smithy, would it be fair to suggest that Windows treats the %APPDATA% as a sort of Wildcard, and just concentrates on looking all over the disk for the bit that follows the %APPDATA%?? %APPDATA% is an environmental variable in

Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-16 Thread NFN Smith
Jonathan N. Little wrote: Daniel wrote: Smithy, would it be fair to suggest that Windows treats the %APPDATA% as a sort of Wildcard, and just concentrates on looking all over the disk for the bit that follows the %APPDATA%?? %APPDATA% is an environmental variable in Windows like $HOME is for

Re: Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-16 Thread Jonathan N. Little
Daniel wrote: > Smithy, would it be fair to suggest that Windows treats the %APPDATA% as > a sort of Wildcard, and just concentrates on looking all over the disk > for the bit that follows the %APPDATA%?? %APPDATA% is an environmental variable in Windows like $HOME is for Linux. In Windows the

Change of Topic ... Wildcards Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-16 Thread Daniel
NFN Smith wrote on 16/3/21 10:52 am: Thus if your Windows user name is "Doctor Bill", then the raw path to the Seamonkey Profiles folder would be:   C:\Users\Doctor Bill\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles I frequently see instructions ambiguated as something like:  

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread DoctorBill
Somebody or Other wrote: DoctorBill wrote: OK - I found the SeaMonkey FOLDER in the Program(x86) directory on my Win 7 compuker and copied it 'intoto' to a Thumb Drive.  I cannot find profile.ini anywhere on this machine (used "Searcheverything"  program) ! Now - do I transfer it to my Win

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread DoctorBill
NFN Smith wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Sorry to have to ask this AGAIN, but I have forgotten how to transfer my Bookmarks, Passwords, and Mail Files from my failing Windows 7 'system' to my Windows 10 computer.  "The whole Ball of Wax" as Kalifornians say. I have SeaMonkey working on a DELL Win 10

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread NFN Smith
DoctorBill wrote: OK - I found the SeaMonkey FOLDER in the Program(x86) directory on my Win 7 compuker and copied it 'intoto' to a Thumb Drive.  I cannot find profile.ini anywhere on this machine (used "Searcheverything"  program) ! Now - do I transfer it to my Win 10 machine and OVERWRITE

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread Ray Davison
NFN Smith wrote: If you copy the entire Seamonkey folder before you start Seamonkey for the first time, then the Profile Manager won't try to create a new default profile. And, if you run any Mozilla app, even the first time, with the "-Profilemanager" switch, you will always have your

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread Ray Davison
NFN Smith wrote: My bad.  The correct is profiles.ini (plural).  I was working quickly and I always forget whether there's an "s" there or not.  There definitely is. I did not know how it was spelled because I have moved profiles between computers and between OS/2 and Win, and was never

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread NFN Smith
Ray Davison wrote: NFN Smith wrote: (even just one, because the names of profile folders are deliberately cryptic). Is "cryptic" supposed to hide them from somebody? Not really. I don't fully get the reason for that, but in all Mozilla apps (Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey), the

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread NFN Smith
Ray Davison wrote: Ray Davison wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Wonder WHY there is no profile.ini file on the Win 7 machine ! ? By default it is in the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey directory I currently have six SM profiles.  I just searched five partitions where a SM

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread Ray Davison
NFN Smith wrote: (even just one, because the names of profile folders are deliberately cryptic). Is "cryptic" supposed to hide them from somebody? If you put them all together in a tree with your choice of names and location, you won't need to go looking for them. And then a desktop

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Wonder WHY there is no profile.ini file on the Win 7 machine ! ? By default it is in the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey directory I currently have six SM profiles.  I just searched five partitions where a SM "profile.ini" could

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread Ray Davison
Jonathan N. Little wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Wonder WHY there is no profile.ini file on the Win 7 machine ! ? By default it is in the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey directory I currently have six SM profiles. I just searched five partitions where a SM "profile.ini" could be located. I found

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread Somebody or Other
DoctorBill wrote: OK - I found the SeaMonkey FOLDER in the Program(x86) directory on my Win 7 compuker and copied it 'intoto' to a Thumb Drive.  I cannot find profile.ini anywhere on this machine (used "Searcheverything"  program) ! Now - do I transfer it to my Win 10 machine and OVERWRITE

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread Jonathan N. Little
DoctorBill wrote: > > Wonder WHY there is no profile.ini file on the Win 7 machine ! ? By default it is in the %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey directory -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread DoctorBill
NFN Smith wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Sorry to have to ask this AGAIN, but I have forgotten how to transfer my Bookmarks, Passwords, and Mail Files from my failing Windows 7 'system' to my Windows 10 computer.  "The whole Ball of Wax" as Kalifornians say. I have SeaMonkey working on a DELL Win 10

Re: Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread NFN Smith
DoctorBill wrote: Sorry to have to ask this AGAIN, but I have forgotten how to transfer my Bookmarks, Passwords, and Mail Files from my failing Windows 7 'system' to my Windows 10 computer.  "The whole Ball of Wax" as Kalifornians say. I have SeaMonkey working on a DELL Win 10 machine. I want

Transfer SM files from Win 7 to Win 10 machine

2021-03-15 Thread DoctorBill
Sorry to have to ask this AGAIN, but I have forgotten how to transfer my Bookmarks, Passwords, and Mail Files from my failing Windows 7 'system' to my Windows 10 computer. "The whole Ball of Wax" as Kalifornians say. I have SeaMonkey working on a DELL Win 10 machine. I want to copy the