Leonidas Jones wrote:
Ken wrote:
I am using SeaMonkey 2.0 and have had very few problems except for the
one regarding copying and pasting text. I have read comments about
McAfee (which I have) and their "site adviser," but I do not have that
installed. At any rate, the copying/pasting problem is so random that I
can live with it.
I would now like to load SeaMonkey 2.0 on a laptop computer and use all
the profile data from my desktop computer on it. If I was to copy the
.slt folder from my desktop to a memory stick, could I direct SeaMonkey
2.0 to import that profile to the laptop? Thanks.
No.
First of all, there is no slt folder in 2.0. Rather, the newly created
profile folder will be called xxxxxxxx.default.
The x's area random string, just like the old slt folder, but the
extension is the actual name of your profile as you see it in profile
manager. Lets say it is a1b2c3d4.default. Copy this folder and transfer
it to your new machine.
Install 2.0 on the new machine, when you run it the first time, it will
not detect a profile to migrate, so it will offer to create a new
profile. Create the profile and close Profile Manager.
Navigate to the profile location, and find the newly created
xxxxxxxx.default. Lets say it is called 1a2b3c4d.default. Rename it to
old1a2b3c4d.default.
Take your profile folder from the old machine, and paste it in alongside
old1a2b3c4d.default.
Then rename the profile folder from your old machine to the exact name
of the newly created profile on the new machine. In our example, the
pasted folder from the old machine is called a1b2c3d4.default. Rename
that to 1a2b3c4d.default.
Isn't there a way to change the name in the pointers to profiles as well? I have
a note that I moved a bunch of profiles to a new machine, and just added their
names to a file. That may have been with 1.1.xx, although the note says "2pre"
as version. Of course I can't find the original note telling me how I did this,
just the daily log that it happened. :-(
Close out, and start SeaMonkey 2.0. You should find that you have
cloned your profile from the old machine onto the new one. When you are
satisfied that all your data is there, you can delete
old1a2b3c4d.default, which is no longer being used for anything.
This *should* work, I have done this a couple of times already with 2.0.
Since you use Windows, you could use the MozBackup program to backup the
profile on the old machine, then use it to "restore" it on the new
machine. I've never used it, so I can't be specific as to the steps,
however, I think the method I outlined here is simple enough.
Lee
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