Re: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
David E. Ross wrote: On 1/4/2015 12:38 PM, HenriK wrote: I need to move my SM v.2.30 files from an XP system to a newer Win 7 system. What is the easiest way to do this? It seems to me that if I do a new install of SM v.2.30 on the Win 7 machine, it seems logical I could then copy the existing v.2.30 files on my XP machine and paste them over the newly-installed v.2.30 files on the Win7 machine. Is this approach likely to work? Is there some better (and hopefully easier) to accomplish such a move? I don't want to change anything about how my SM v.2.30 is working, just move it. Thanks, in advance, for any and all advice, guidance, and/or suggestions. First, make a clean install of SeaMonkey on the new PC. It is most simple if your profile resides at the equivalent place on your new PC that they were on the old PC. For example, I have a profile named David (my name) at D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David. (Note that I eliminated the random part of the folder name at the end of the path.) On a new PC -- same or different version of Windows -- I would move this to the same path. Finally, I would locate the file profiles.ini for SeaMonkey on the new PC. In Windows 7, this is something like C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey, where for me is David. Edit that file to point to your new profile. For me, the file profiles.ini begins: [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=David IsRelative=0 Path=D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David Default=1 I don't recall mozilla ever using Windows backslash, always forward so I think that should be: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David and you might have to quote if there is a space in the path: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David I would advise NOT using spaces in you path: Path=D:/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/David The IsRelative=0 indicates that the Path term is a complete path and not a path relative to where the file profiles.ini resides. I have three other profiles, each for a special purpose. For those extra profiles, there is [Profile1], [Profile2], and [Profile3]; they have Default=0. I am very glad I did my profiles this way. When I had to reinstall Windows 7 because malware blocked me from even booting, my profiles were not touched. I did not lose any bookmarks, history, or (for Thunderbird) E-mails. Also, my C-disc is not very large. My scheme moves the profiles to a separate hard drive that is much larger. You do not backup? You could not access the drive with another system? Unfortunately stupid drive letters have unnecessarily complicated Windows. Much prefer Linux filesystem where data can be moved another partition, another drive, another system, or even span all of the above without impacting your installation at all. -- 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: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
On 1/5/2015 6:59 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: I previously wrote: First, make a clean install of SeaMonkey on the new PC. It is most simple if your profile resides at the equivalent place on your new PC that they were on the old PC. For example, I have a profile named David (my name) at D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David. (Note that I eliminated the random part of the folder name at the end of the path.) On a new PC -- same or different version of Windows -- I would move this to the same path. Finally, I would locate the file profiles.ini for SeaMonkey on the new PC. In Windows 7, this is something like C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey, where for me is David. Edit that file to point to your new profile. For me, the file profiles.ini begins: [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=David IsRelative=0 Path=D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David Default=1 I don't recall mozilla ever using Windows backslash, always forward so I think that should be: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David and you might have to quote if there is a space in the path: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David I would advise NOT using spaces in you path: Path=D:/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/David A few years ago, I decided that I wanted my profiles on the hard drive that I used for data, in an esily reached folder that contained both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird profiles. I edited the content of profiles.ini for SeaMonkey and for Thunderbird, using the format of paths that already existed there but just changing where they pointed. This involved \ instead of /, and it did not involve quoting where there were blanks. The profiles.ini files I had to leave where they were. Everything worked okay and still works. I copied part of the current content of my SeaMonkey profiles.ini for my reply quoted above. The IsRelative=0 indicates that the Path term is a complete path and not a path relative to where the file profiles.ini resides. I have three other profiles, each for a special purpose. For those extra profiles, there is [Profile1], [Profile2], and [Profile3]; they have Default=0. I am very glad I did my profiles this way. When I had to reinstall Windows 7 because malware blocked me from even booting, my profiles were not touched. I did not lose any bookmarks, history, or (for Thunderbird) E-mails. Also, my C-disc is not very large. My scheme moves the profiles to a separate hard drive that is much larger. You do not backup? You could not access the drive with another system? Of course I backup. I do it weekly. But if I cannot boot, I cannot restore from a backup. I was doing backups by folders, not by partitions. Now I backup by partitions. Unfortunately stupid drive letters have unnecessarily complicated Windows. Much prefer Linux filesystem where data can be moved another partition, another drive, another system, or even span all of the above without impacting your installation at all. I used UNIX well before I ever saw a PC with Windows, both UNIX C and UNIX Korn. I really like them and still code server-side scripts for my Web site in UNIX. However, many of the applications that I like only exist for Windows. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
On 1/5/2015 6:59 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: I previously wrote: First, make a clean install of SeaMonkey on the new PC. It is most simple if your profile resides at the equivalent place on your new PC that they were on the old PC. For example, I have a profile named David (my name) at D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David. (Note that I eliminated the random part of the folder name at the end of the path.) On a new PC -- same or different version of Windows -- I would move this to the same path. Finally, I would locate the file profiles.ini for SeaMonkey on the new PC. In Windows 7, this is something like C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey, where for me is David. Edit that file to point to your new profile. For me, the file profiles.ini begins: [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=David IsRelative=0 Path=D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David Default=1 I don't recall mozilla ever using Windows backslash, always forward so I think that should be: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David and you might have to quote if there is a space in the path: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David I would advise NOT using spaces in you path: Path=D:/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/David A few years ago, I decided that I wanted my profiles on the hard drive that I used for data, in an esily reached folder that contained both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird profiles. I edited the content of profiles.ini for SeaMonkey and for Thunderbird, using the format of paths that already existed there but just changing where they pointed. This involved \ instead of /, and it did not involve quoting where there were blanks. The profiles.ini files I had to leave where they were. Everything worked okay and still works. I copied part of the current content of my SeaMonkey profiles.ini for my reply quoted above. The IsRelative=0 indicates that the Path term is a complete path and not a path relative to where the file profiles.ini resides. I have three other profiles, each for a special purpose. For those extra profiles, there is [Profile1], [Profile2], and [Profile3]; they have Default=0. I am very glad I did my profiles this way. When I had to reinstall Windows 7 because malware blocked me from even booting, my profiles were not touched. I did not lose any bookmarks, history, or (for Thunderbird) E-mails. Also, my C-disc is not very large. My scheme moves the profiles to a separate hard drive that is much larger. You do not backup? You could not access the drive with another system? Of course I backup. I do it weekly. But if I cannot boot, I cannot restore from a backup. I was doing backups by folders, not by partitions. Now I backup by partitions. Unfortunately stupid drive letters have unnecessarily complicated Windows. Much prefer Linux filesystem where data can be moved another partition, another drive, another system, or even span all of the above without impacting your installation at all. I used UNIX well before I ever saw a PC with Windows, both UNIX C and UNIX Korn. I really like them and still code server-side scripts for my Web site in UNIX. However, many of the applications that I like only exist for Windows. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
On 1/5/2015 9:33 AM, Ed Mullen wrote: David E. Ross wrote on 1/5/2015 11:44 AM: On 1/5/2015 6:59 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: I previously wrote: First, make a clean install of SeaMonkey on the new PC. It is most simple if your profile resides at the equivalent place on your new PC that they were on the old PC. For example, I have a profile named David (my name) at D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David. (Note that I eliminated the random part of the folder name at the end of the path.) On a new PC -- same or different version of Windows -- I would move this to the same path. Finally, I would locate the file profiles.ini for SeaMonkey on the new PC. In Windows 7, this is something like C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey, where for me is David. Edit that file to point to your new profile. For me, the file profiles.ini begins: [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=David IsRelative=0 Path=D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David Default=1 I don't recall mozilla ever using Windows backslash, always forward so I think that should be: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David and you might have to quote if there is a space in the path: D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David I would advise NOT using spaces in you path: Path=D:/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/David A few years ago, I decided that I wanted my profiles on the hard drive that I used for data, in an esily reached folder that contained both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird profiles. I edited the content of profiles.ini for SeaMonkey and for Thunderbird, using the format of paths that already existed there but just changing where they pointed. This involved \ instead of /, and it did not involve quoting where there were blanks. The profiles.ini files I had to leave where they were. Everything worked okay and still works. I copied part of the current content of my SeaMonkey profiles.ini for my reply quoted above. The IsRelative=0 indicates that the Path term is a complete path and not a path relative to where the file profiles.ini resides. I have three other profiles, each for a special purpose. For those extra profiles, there is [Profile1], [Profile2], and [Profile3]; they have Default=0. I am very glad I did my profiles this way. When I had to reinstall Windows 7 because malware blocked me from even booting, my profiles were not touched. I did not lose any bookmarks, history, or (for Thunderbird) E-mails. Also, my C-disc is not very large. My scheme moves the profiles to a separate hard drive that is much larger. You do not backup? You could not access the drive with another system? Of course I backup. I do it weekly. But if I cannot boot, I cannot restore from a backup. I was doing backups by folders, not by partitions. Now I backup by partitions. Most good backup programs allow you to create a bootable CD/DVD to boot from and restore a partition backup. Mine does and I've used it. I have two physical hard drives. A solid-state drive (SSD) contains partitions C and J. C has Windows and those applications that insist on being installed on a C-disc; J has all the other applications. A spinner (almost 10 times the capacity of the SSD) has partitions D and F. D contains all my data; F is a recovery partition. Yes, I now have a bootable CD with my backup application (Acronis True Image). That is why I now backup my C and J partitions, each separately. I still backup my D partition by folders, to separate photos from other data. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
I need to move my SM v.2.30 files from an XP system to a newer Win 7 system. What is the easiest way to do this? It seems to me that if I do a new install of SM v.2.30 on the Win 7 machine, it seems logical I could then copy the existing v.2.30 files on my XP machine and paste them over the newly-installed v.2.30 files on the Win7 machine. Is this approach likely to work? Is there some better (and hopefully easier) to accomplish such a move? I don't want to change anything about how my SM v.2.30 is working, just move it. Thanks, in advance, for any and all advice, guidance, and/or suggestions. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
did this last year using Mozbackup... backed up everything to a thumb drive the restored it all to the new computer/OS didnt tel it where or how or anything, just let it go ... and it worked just great HenriK wrote on 1/4/2015 3:38 PM: I need to move my SM v.2.30 files from an XP system to a newer Win 7 system. What is the easiest way to do this? It seems to me that if I do a new install of SM v.2.30 on the Win 7 machine, it seems logical I could then copy the existing v.2.30 files on my XP machine and paste them over the newly-installed v.2.30 files on the Win7 machine. Is this approach likely to work? Is there some better (and hopefully easier) to accomplish such a move? I don't want to change anything about how my SM v.2.30 is working, just move it. Thanks, in advance, for any and all advice, guidance, and/or suggestions. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
HenriK wrote: I need to move my SM v.2.30 files from an XP system to a newer Win 7 system. What is the easiest way to do this? It seems to me that if I do a new install of SM v.2.30 on the Win 7 machine, it seems logical I could then copy the existing v.2.30 files on my XP machine and paste them over the newly-installed v.2.30 files on the Win7 machine. Is this approach likely to work? Yes I have moved profile on several systems this way and even from Windows to Linux. On XP get your profile copy profile folder to some media C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\SOME_SALT.default Note the folder name the SALT will be something 8 random characters like k54g9kjh.default On Windows 7 type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles in the search box so Explorer will open in the hidden folder Copy your XP profile there Move up one directory, i.e., %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\ and open profile.ini in notepad [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 ; comment out the initial Windows 7 installed profile with a ; ;Path=Profiles/original.default ; add entry with name of the Windows XP profile you just copied Path=Profiles/k54g9kjh.default Save and start SeaMonkey and your bookmarks, passwords, email and all with be there. Is there some better (and hopefully easier) to accomplish such a move? I don't want to change anything about how my SM v.2.30 is working, just move it. Thanks, in advance, for any and all advice, guidance, and/or suggestions. They have some backup utilities but I have never found them to be needed above works just fine. -- 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: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
On 1/4/2015 12:38 PM, HenriK wrote: I need to move my SM v.2.30 files from an XP system to a newer Win 7 system. What is the easiest way to do this? It seems to me that if I do a new install of SM v.2.30 on the Win 7 machine, it seems logical I could then copy the existing v.2.30 files on my XP machine and paste them over the newly-installed v.2.30 files on the Win7 machine. Is this approach likely to work? Is there some better (and hopefully easier) to accomplish such a move? I don't want to change anything about how my SM v.2.30 is working, just move it. Thanks, in advance, for any and all advice, guidance, and/or suggestions. First, make a clean install of SeaMonkey on the new PC. It is most simple if your profile resides at the equivalent place on your new PC that they were on the old PC. For example, I have a profile named David (my name) at D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David. (Note that I eliminated the random part of the folder name at the end of the path.) On a new PC -- same or different version of Windows -- I would move this to the same path. Finally, I would locate the file profiles.ini for SeaMonkey on the new PC. In Windows 7, this is something like C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey, where for me is David. Edit that file to point to your new profile. For me, the file profiles.ini begins: [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=David IsRelative=0 Path=D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David Default=1 The IsRelative=0 indicates that the Path term is a complete path and not a path relative to where the file profiles.ini resides. I have three other profiles, each for a special purpose. For those extra profiles, there is [Profile1], [Profile2], and [Profile3]; they have Default=0. I am very glad I did my profiles this way. When I had to reinstall Windows 7 because malware blocked me from even booting, my profiles were not touched. I did not lose any bookmarks, history, or (for Thunderbird) E-mails. Also, my C-disc is not very large. My scheme moves the profiles to a separate hard drive that is much larger. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Moving SM to a New PC/New OS
On 05/01/15 12:09, rjkrjk wrote: did this last year using Mozbackup... backed up everything to a thumb drive the restored it all to the new computer/OS didnt tel it where or how or anything, just let it go ... and it worked just great HenriK wrote on 1/4/2015 3:38 PM: I need to move my SM v.2.30 files from an XP system to a newer Win 7 system. What is the easiest way to do this? It seems to me that if I do a new install of SM v.2.30 on the Win 7 machine, it seems logical I could then copy the existing v.2.30 files on my XP machine and paste them over the newly-installed v.2.30 files on the Win7 machine. Is this approach likely to work? Is there some better (and hopefully easier) to accomplish such a move? I don't want to change anything about how my SM v.2.30 is working, just move it. Thanks, in advance, for any and all advice, guidance, and/or suggestions. Mozbackup would probably be my suggestion as well, but I would think you would first have to do a complete install (including Mail News profile set-up) and then let Mozbackup copy the files from your WinXP profile on the old system to the Win7 system. -- Daniel Seasons Greeting to One and All!! User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.32 Build identifier: 20141218225909 or User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.32 Build identifier: 20141218225525 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
