Hartmut Figge wrote:
Marisa Ciceran:
Marisa Ciceran wrote:
I have been a faithful user of SeaMonkey and all its predecessors going
back to the early 1990s. Currently, I have version 1.1.18 installed on
my system and two days ago I downloaded and installed version 2 -
immediately running into an unexpected and totally avoidable problem.
I expected the installation to follow the usual procedure of deleting
the prior working version
That i don't want. It's nice to be able to run the prior version. You
can even run both simultaneously using the parameter -no-remote.
and overriding the desktop icons, as in prior upgrades.
I don't have a desktop *g*.
Yes you do the screen you see when you open your computer after it boots
up is called the desktop on Macintosh computers. Other computer users,
using Windows Machines may also call it the Desktop as well. Unix and
Linux don't have this unless they have some type of GUI installed. if
they go bare - naked (no GUI) they use the same old command line system
That Widows machines used back in DOS 3.1 days.
I know about this because I worked as Electronics Tech for school system
back during them days. And when you boot a Mac into single user mode.
You are using Raw Unix which looks and , you have to type commands
almost identically the same way.
But here i agree. There should be the old ones for SM 1.1.18 and also
new ones for SN 2.0. Or, the icons should now point to SM 2.
It did not do so, thereby causing a conflict with incoming mails
which arrived in version 2.0 on the first session right after
installation, then yo version 1.1.18 on the next and subsequent
openings of SeaMonkey Mail, leaving me with mails to be transferred
over.
If she is more comfortable using 1.1.8 then she should go into SM2 and
do as you say set for each email account and news server not to
automatically download, and to leave on messages on server.
If you alternate between SM 1.1.18 and SM 2, this behavior is expected
if you use POP3. Once one of them has fetched the mails, then well,
there are no mails left for the other one. ;)
You can prevent that by checking the box 'Leave messages on server' for
one of the SMs.
I have not yet fully recovered from this unwarranted problem which
an instruction/warning during the installation and/or during
"import" phase of the installation 2.0 would have prevented, and so
would have new icons on the desktop.
I don't understand fully. Will sometimes start SM1 when clicking on the
icans and sometimes SM2? Could it be, that there are remains of SM 1,
perhaps for autostart or quicklaunch?
But that's only a guess because i know nothing about a modern Windows.
But, if an instance of SM 1 is already running when you attempt to open
SM 2, then SM 1 will launch instead of SM 2.
I have one other smaller, but significant problem. While I have not had
much time yet to investigate what has changed besides that some add-ons
no longer work and the look of the icons and smileys is different (the
new smileys are awful!),
Ha! That i feel also and therefore there are still the old icons on my
SM 2. Maybe the only SM 2 with the old icons all of the world. *g*
I did notice right away that the mails status bar no longer shows
that the program is downloading incoming mails. Can anyone tell me
whether that feature will be brought back?
Haven't noticed that, perhaps because i'm using fetchmail.
I have had a host of additional problems with SeaMonkey version 2.0
since this original post (which remains unanswered),
Well, i don't always read this NG. an i'm writing reluctantly because of
bad writing skills in English.
Regretfully, I had no choice but to return to version 1.1.18 before
any more damage was done to my extensive mail archives.
Using nightlies of current SM 2.1 is far more interesting. ;)
Hartmut
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