Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-24 Thread Ray Davison
EE wrote: Ray Davison wrote: EE wrote: You could also save emails as .eml files and put them into a separate directory anywhere. Why would I want to change the file format? That way, you could save the messages anywhere. They do not have to be in the profile of the email reader. I

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-21 Thread EE
Ray Davison wrote: EE wrote: You could also save emails as .eml files and put them into a separate directory anywhere. Why would I want to change the file format? That way, you could save the messages anywhere. They do not have to be in the profile of the email reader.

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-20 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: In case someone doubts hat this system works, below is the body of the first email I received. I still have it. My mail has never been lost. This is cut and paste so it is not the original formatting. * First email 2 June 1997

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-20 Thread Ray Davison
EE wrote: You could also save emails as .eml files and put them into a separate directory anywhere. Why would I want to change the file format? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-19 Thread EE
Ray Davison wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: And, my profiles - of which I have several - are not vulnerable to app changes because they are not part of the app.  And the mail files - of which I have well over a hundred - are not vulnerable to profile changes because they are not part of the

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread WaltS48
On 6/18/2018 7:01 PM, Ray Davison wrote: WaltS48 wrote: On 6/18/18 5:51 PM, Ray Davison wrote: My main point is, if you separate app, profile and mail, you can break one without effecting the others.  I have had a lot of profiles break. I just fix it, get a backup, make a new one,,,. Isn't

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread Ray Davison
WaltS48 wrote: On 6/18/18 5:51 PM, Ray Davison wrote: My main point is, if you separate app, profile and mail, you can break one without effecting the others. I have had a lot of profiles break. I just fix it, get a backup, make a new one,,,. Isn't the profile already separated from the

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread WaltS48
On 6/18/18 5:51 PM, Ray Davison wrote: My main point is, if you separate app, profile and mail, you can break one without effecting the others.  I have had a lot of profiles break. I just fix it, get a backup, make a new one,,,. Isn't the profile already separated from the app? If I

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: My main point is, if you separate app, profile and mail, you can break one without effecting the others. I have had a lot of profiles break. I just fix it, get a backup, make a new one,,, and I haven't lost any data. In case someone doubts hat this system works, below

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread Ray Davison
Felix Miata wrote: Ray Davison composed on 2018-06-16 19:26 (UTC-0700): I treat the app, the profile and email as three separate things. Each is in it's own tree, not connected to the others, but the app points to the profile and the profile points to the mail. Each then is individually

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread Ray Davison
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: It is quite simple. Sharing profiles with different versions is not supported. The migration code ones knows one way and this is up from lower to higher version. Especially the storage format changes frequently. Check you error console for errors during startup. There

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread Ray Davison
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: There are times when different versions do matter for the profile. For example, there was a time a while back (early in 2.x) I did acknowledge the 1X to 2X change replied to. And, my profiles - of which I have several - are not vulnerable to app changes because

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-18 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
It is quite simple. Sharing profiles with different versions is not supported. The migration code ones knows one way and this is up from lower to higher version. Especially the storage format changes frequently. Check you error console for errors during startup. There are always a few but in

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-17 Thread Felix Miata
Ray Davison composed on 2018-06-16 19:26 (UTC-0700): > I treat the app, the profile and email as three separate things. Each > is in it's own tree, not connected to the others, but the app points to > the profile and the profile points to the mail. Each then is > individually controlled. >

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-17 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Ray Davison wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Now you can unzip as many versions of SM as you wish and they can all use the same profile.  Do not replace an app until you are sure you like the new better than the old. In theory yes but be aware that you can't use different SeaMonkey

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-17 Thread Ray Davison
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: And on Windows the installer,,, I never use the installer, only the zip distros. It is just unzip, create a shortcut and run. And, in case anyone is interested, the FF EXEs are really self extracting zip files. You can unzip them to wherever you want and name

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-17 Thread Ray Davison
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Now you can unzip as many versions of SM as you wish and they can all use the same profile. Do not replace an app until you are sure you like the new better than the old. In theory yes but be aware that you can't use different SeaMonkey versions with the same

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-17 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
Now you can unzip as many versions of SM as you wish and they can all use the same profile. Do not replace an app until you are sure you like the new better than the old. In theory yes but be aware that you can't use different SeaMonkey versions with the same profile. And on Windows the

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-17 Thread Daniel
dixvillecl...@gmail.com wrote on 17/06/2018 12:07 AM: On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 9:52:18 AM UTC-4, WaltS48 wrote: On 6/16/18 9:29 AM, Just to confirm - doing the manual install from 2.46 to 2.49.4 - all of my old emails will be migrated to the new version, yes? I'm just a little gun-shy

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-16 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: Get the profile(s) off to a data area. I treat the app, the profile and email as three separate things. Each is in it's own tree, not connected to the others, but the app points to the profile and the profile points to the mail. Each then is individually controlled.

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-16 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: Get the ZIP file. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/2.49.3/win32/en-US/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-16 Thread Ray Davison
dixvillecl...@gmail.com wrote: Just to confirm - doing the manual install from 2.46 to 2.49.4 - all of my old emails will be migrated to the new version, yes? I'm just a little gun-shy when I'm asked to confirm that I want to install by "replacing" the previous version. Thanks! Forget the

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-16 Thread Lloyd Frazier
The official release of SeaMonkey, is SeaMonkey 2.49.3, NOT SeaMonkey 2.49.4, in a Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64-bit Operating System, and I use SeaMonkey 2.49.3. Lloyd F. Frazier Wichita, Kansas, United States of America From: support-seamonkey on behalf of

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-16 Thread dixvilleclerk
On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 9:52:18 AM UTC-4, WaltS48 wrote: > On 6/16/18 9:29 AM, > > Just to confirm - doing the manual install from 2.46 to 2.49.4 - all of my > > old emails will be migrated to the new version, yes? I'm just a little > > gun-shy when I'm asked to confirm that I want to

Re: Manual installation of 2.49.3

2018-06-16 Thread WaltS48
On 6/16/18 9:29 AM, dixvillecl...@gmail.com wrote: Just to confirm - doing the manual install from 2.46 to 2.49.4 - all of my old emails will be migrated to the new version, yes? I'm just a little gun-shy when I'm asked to confirm that I want to install by "replacing" the previous version.