Daniel wrote:
Richard wrote:
Martin Freitag wrote:
Richard schrieb:
I upgraded to SM2 never thinking I would have a problem with my
multiple
profiles from SM 1.1.18 Oh Boy what a mistake, two days later and I
still cant figure this out.
What is the answer?
What is the question?
You have to migrate additional profiles manually:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_migration_-_SeaMonkey
regards
snip
When SM 2.0 was installed, all it did was copy your SM 1.1.18 default
profile to where SM 2.0 wants its profile. Your SM 1.1.18 profile are
basically untouched and still available for you to use in SM 1.1.18.
Exactly ... but you will only find that out by reading the online help
or one of the support group articles. It's not part of the install UI.
If you want to use your other SM 1.1.18 profiles in SM 2.0 (which
doesn't know about them, yet), you will have to migrate them across from
SM 1.1.18
HTH
Daniel
I started using Netscape Communicator at v. 4.71, and at this point the
addressbook, password file, bookmarks, and email are as close to
'essential as anything can be to my work life. So I understand the
emotion when that information seems on the verge of being lost.
The thing to remember is that the change to the Firefox engine brings us
forward to a better security layer and a faster rendering engine. Some
changes have been forced upon Seamonkey because of this, but it's still
a leap forward.
It's also important to remember that the features which users find most
essential are the ones that impact their personal data. Profile
management is not nearly as essential for a 'browser only' application
like Firefox as it is for a 'internet suite' application like SeaMonkey.
Pushing SeaMonkey into the Firefox system is overall a good thing, but
losing features that affect the users is always a negative for the
overall reputation of the software. This is the time to add some
features to the installation process so the Firefox install package can
pick up where Seamonkey left off.
IIRC, the old way (netscape) was that all profiles were copied over, and
if you had one of the same name, the one being copied from the old
version would have a suffix like 2 added to it. So that's always been
the behavior I expected. The current install breaks this, and causes
serious 'flop sweat' if you're in the middle of an email exchange with a
customer, lose access to your email for a couple days, and you didn't
read the online guide to installing 2.0 (all of which I did !:-/).
During the install, Seamonkey 2.0 only imports one profile, this is a
loss of expected functionality. Also, you can do things to your profile
which are quite alarming, Example;
1) Upgrade to 2.0, let it copy your default profile over, realize after
the fact that all your business email is in the 'MyBusiness' profile
2) Delete 2.0, reinstall and copy the MyBusiness profile over, it's now
the default profile.
3) By now you've read the online help and you try the command line
method for running the profile manager. Maybe you overwrite the
'MyBusiness' profile in 2.0 with the default profile from 1.1.8
At this point the relief upon finding out that your 1.1.8 profile is
intact and unchanged is enormous, but you still struggle to wrap your
head around the new (to you) profile management methods.
Re-read the instructions for manual profile migration and run the
migration so it copies over the old profile name. Now you can move all
profiles to the 2.0 install and have the same email, address book,
bookmarks, and stored password data that you have on the old SeaMonkey.
Unfortunately "Forms Manager" did not make it to 2.0, so all your stored
form data may be gone. I found it very useful when signing up for
Webinars or email subscriptions because 90% of the data stayed the same
and the form manager detected 80% of the forms correctly, which saved a
lot of typing.
I've been a long time fan of SeaMonkey because I've always thought of
the unified presentation of the applications that make up the Suite as
the better way for the average non-developer, non-power user to work.
IOW It links chat, email, newsgroups, browsing and publishing in one
pkg. that works out of the box. Some companies got into the habit of
producing partially broken OS's and Browsers because it makes busy work
for the IT dept. of their customers. Only word of mouth spreads the
support of Open Source products. That's why it is so much more important
for OSS vendors to write better UI than the proprietary software providers.
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