On 11/15/2009 11:56 AM, Lance Courtland wrote: > > David: > > Please help those of us struggling to migrate multiple profiles in > different user areas of Win XP SP3. > > Precisely what are the steps used to migrate these profiles? > What preference variables did you have to set in user.js? > What changes did you make in about:config?
Since I expect my further actions to be within SeaMonkey 2.0, I did not record how I migrated my profiles. I will try to give you what I remember. 1. I installed SeaMonkey 2.0 in Windows XP in a different directory than SeaMonkey 1.1.18. SeaMonkey 1.1.18 is in <C:\Seamonkey>. SeaMonkey 2.0 is in <C:\SeaMonkey2>. Somehow, I did not see the migration wizard operating for my primary profile. This might be because my SeaMonkey 1.1.18 profiles are not in the default location <C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles>. Instead, they are under <C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla>. 2. I launched SeaMonkey 2.0 and requested [Tools > Switch Profile] from the menu bar to launch the Profile Manager. On the Profile Manager window, I selected the Manage Profiles button. I then created a dummy profile for each of the four profiles that I wanted to migrate. These dummy profiles were created in directories separate from the SeaMonkey 1.1.18 profiles, under <C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\SeaMonkey>. (The names of the profiles are the same, but they are under different directories.) I then terminated SeaMonkey and the Profile Manager. 3. For each SeaMonkey 2.0 profile, I deleted the contents of the dummy profile and then copied the contents of the corresponding SeaMonkey 1.1.18 profile into the SeaMonkey 2.0 profile. This involved not only files but also subdirectories and their files. 4. On the Windows taskbar, I selected [Start > Run]. I followed the instructions at <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_migration_-_SeaMonkey#Manual_migration>, repeating for each profile. In my case the command for my David profile was: C:\SeaMonkey2\seamonkey.exe -P "C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\SeaMonkey\David" -migration all on a single line. Note that the quotes were required because the path to my profile involved names containing blanks. 5. (While I didn't do the following, I should have. Instead, I dithered around for a few days, fixing the file paths only as I noticed something didn't work correctly. By the time the light dawned, my review of <about:config> showed that I had already corrected almost all of the file paths.) Repeat this in SeaMonkey 2.0 for each migrated profile. On the SeaMonkey address area, enter <about:config>. Slowly scroll through all entries, looking for values that point to files on your PC. Change values specific to SeaMonkey 1.1.x to being specific to SeaMonkey 2.0. For example, my home page is my bookmarks file. The preference variable browser.startup.homepage was still pointing to my SeaMonkey 1.1.18 bookmarks.html file; I had to change it to point to my SeaMonkey 2.0 bookmarks.html file. 6. To address bugs, I put the following into the user.js files in each of my profiles. user_pref("browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete", false); // no alert on completing download; bug #526399 user_pref("signon.startup.prompt", false); // don't ask for master password until it's used, bug #338549 Don't forget the semi-colon at the end of the user_pref command. Note that I use user.js so that I can annotate why I'm changing a preference; comment lines begin with double-slash. The user.js file updates your preferences only when SeaMonkey is launched; thus, you must terminate and then restart SeaMonkey after entering these in user.js. If these bugs are ever fixed, I will delete these entries from user.js and use <about:config> to reset the variables. 7. To address a reduced capability for setting user IDs and passwords for Web site logins, I installed the Activate Autocomplete extension. It can be found at <http://www.smart-roadster-club.de/off-topic/mozilla/extensions/activate-autocomplete/>. There is a bug report on this problem, but I can't get it right now because Bugzilla is being updated. 8. I also installed the following extensions: * Adblock Plus 1.1.1 <http://adblockplus.org/> * Flashblock 1.3.14 <http://flashblock.mozdev.org/> * PrefBar 4.3.0 <http://prefbar.mozdev.org/> * Show Password On Input 0.1.3 <https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/6143/> Adblock Plus 1.1.1 is specifically for SeaMonkey 2.0 (and Firefox 3.5.x). PrefBar 4.3.0 will work with SeaMonkey 1.1.18 but was developed for SeaMonkey 2.0; there are also some button changes for SeaMonkey 2.0. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
