Yep; I think that's one of the reason I was mistaken. In case you
haven't seen the messages Lee was right.
James
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support-seamonkey-requ...@lists.mozilla.org wrote:
From: JAS <jaskin...@bbc.net> To: support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Where To Install SM2.. Message-ID:
<wmqdnwhlmt4nh3xxnz2dnuvz_qkdn...@mozilla.org> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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<leonidasjo...@netscape.net>
>> To:support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org
>> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Where To Install SM2..
>> Message-ID:<muqdnulqesz6phrxnz2dnuvz_gqdn...@mozilla.org>
>> 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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