James wrote: > I just updated and as far as I can see the entire old Seamonkey is > gone [overwritten] just like the Seamonkey site tells you it's going > to be. I just wondered where you got the idea that it wouldn't do > what they specifically tell you it _will_ do. Perhaps in a Beta??? > > Anyway, clicking on my old shortcut to Seamonkey 1.x now loads > Seamonkey 2.0 and I don't see the old one anywhere. It's probably not > a good idea to keep telling people they'll still have the old version > to fall back on when the download page tells you that you won't. > Maybe if you installed it in some other location??? > > I'm using Vista Home Basic 64 bit. > > James > . > . > > >> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:44:07 -0400 >> From: Leonidas Jones<[email protected]> >> To:[email protected] >> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Where To Install SM2.. >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> James wrote: >> >>> > Then why is this note on the Seamonkey page under Installation? >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>>> >> Installation >>>> >> >>>> >> Please note that installing SeaMonkey 2.0 will overwrite your >>>> existing >>>> >> installation of SeaMonkey. You won't lose any of your bookmarks, >>>> >> browsing history or mail and news messages, but some of your >>>> >> extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for >>>> them are >>>> >> made available. >>>> >> >>>> >>> > . >>> > . >>> > Thanks, >>> > James >>> > . >>> > . >>> >>>> >> First of all, even if you install SM 2.0 in the default >>>> location, it >>>> >> will not overwrite the existing SM 1.1.x. It installs to its own >>>> >> location, and sets up a new profile in a new location. As long >>>> as you >>>> >> do not uninstall SM 1.1.x, you cn easily run the two >>>> independently of >>>> >> each other. >>>> >>> > >>> > >>> >> Well, all I can say is that installing 2.0 on Win XP SP3 installed to a >> separate SeaMonkey folder in Program Files, leaving 1.1.14 untouched in >> the mozilla.org folder. >> >> On the other hand, on Mac OS X, I installed it as instructed to >> Applications, which did overwrite 1.1.18. >> >> At least that is what happened to me. >> >> Lee >> > You might check the properties of the old Seamonkey shortcut-mine was changed to go to the new install and I had to point it to my old installation and then everything was OK.
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