Frog wrote:
You will understand how unknowing I am about computers after reading
this message.
I routinely (monthly) backup the two drives (C and E) that are resident
on my computer (using Casper 5 software). It has become necessary on
more than one occasion to reload only the C portion of the backup back
on my system...this most recently occurred when a ca Anti Virus update
did bad things to my system. The re installation of the backup has
always succeeded in resolving my technical problems in short order. The
problem with this process, however, is I lose my mail message for the
period between the making of the backup and the day the backup was
reinstalled on the system. Thus, I would like to find a way of moving
the mail message storage to the E drive, which is used for storage only,
and has not been involved in any of the past technical difficulties.
Presently my messages are stored on the C drive as follows:
Documents and
Settings>Frog>Mozilla>Profiles>Frog-SeaM>g66n48iz.slt>Mail>Local Folders
When I open Windows Explorer to this location, I find other folders
listed under Mozilla as follows:
Mozilla
Extensions
ho...@tomtom.com
Profiles
Frog-SeaM
g66n48iz.slt
chrome
Mail
incoming.verizon.net
Local Folders
News
news.mozilla-1.org
news.mozilla.org
(((and other news groups I visit)))
Now for my question---can this Mozilla folder be moved to the E drive?
If so, what happens when I attempt to make future updates to SeaMonkey?
Do I have a separate action to take involving the tomtom entry? Is
moving this Mozilla folder to the E drive a good or bad idea?
Seamonkey 1.1.17
Windows XP Pro SP3
Thanks for any help/guidance/recommendations/etc. sent my way on the
above subject. I hope you your keep answers simple for this old timer.
I have routinely done so with no harm done in the past, with the
following background so you understand what I'm doing and why:
I have two machines running the same OS and service pack (WinXP Pro
SP3), and both SeaMonkey installations are configured the same way (same
add-ons, same plug-ins, etc.). With both copies of Mozilla, er,
SeaMonkey closed, I delete the \Mozilla folder on the target computer
and copy the \Mozilla folder over from the source computer. When I
launch SeaMonkey on the target, it comes up looking exactly like on the
source, with exactly the same messages in exactly the same folders,
exactly the same preferences, etc.
I do have one program that SM (like Mozilla before it) periodically
forgets, and that's an FLV player. I sometimes have to go into the
Helper Applications option and reselect it, but other than that
everything works fine.
It's a poor man's way of synching the two machines -- I normally use my
desktop for email and browsing, but when I go on a trip I "transfer" to
my laptop. On my return, I reverse the procedure and the desktop acts as
if /it/ went on the trip and handled all my correspondence.
I don't know how well this would work across operating systems -- it's
possible some files or folders would be in different locations and SM
couldn't find them on the target. But this is likely to affect only
plug-ins, helper apps, etc. and not the SeaMonkey program itself.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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