HenriK wrote:
HenriK wrote:
JohnW-Mpls wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:42:18 -0500, HenriK <[email protected]>
wrote:
HenriK wrote:
My memory is that a workaround was required when one wanted to have
SM v.1.x installed in a HD partition other than c:\.
Does SM v.2.x also require some sort of a workaround if one desires
it to be installed in a HD partition other than c:\? If so, where
do I find the instructions for the workaround?
Thanks in advance for the assistance.
I am very appreciative of the good advice but I still am not doing
something right or am a bit thick in the head.
I copied the original profile location under 'Documents and
Settings' on my c:\ drive (all of the stuff in the folder that has
what appears to be a randomly generated name) and then pasted it to
the partition where I really want these files to reside. I further
pointed SeaMonkey e-mail to the new location.
What has happened is quite weird. The mail now goes to the new
location but the address book and the bookmarks (and perhaps other
things) have remained in the original 'Documents and Settings'
folder on my c:\ drive.
Can anybody suggest what I might have done wrong and suggest a fix
for the problem?
Thanks, in advance, for suggestions and comments.
The following is the memo I left myself after I upped to SM2 .0 on my
C: drive and then moved my SM 1.18 profile on my D: drive to a new
folder on the D: drive for SM 2.0.
+ + + + + +
Moving SM2 Profile
SM newsgp
I successfully moved my SM2 profile from under XP on my C: drive to my
D: drive where I keep all my data files. Took me only 3 installs to
get it right! [grin]
First thing was to clean up old SM files under XP. That included
uninstalling SM1.1.18 and deleting the SM2 profile that had been
created when I tried a beta copy of SM2 (location - C:\Documents and
Settings\John W\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles)
Install of SM2 was easy including importing all my SM1.1.18 profile
info that was on my D: drive.
I then created a new directory on my D: drive for the SM2 profile (I
labeled it moz).
With SM2 running again, I hit Tools|Switch Profile and clicked to
create a new profile. I selected my new D:\moz as the location and
named the new profile (JW for me). Closed SM.
Using Win Explorer, I copied my SM1 profile files under D:\nsp to the
new SM2 profile location, D:\moz. That is: I copied everything under
that crazy code number (that Netscape assigned when I first set-up
that profile) D:\nsp\jw\6tw0u8b7.slt to D\moz. Exited Explorer.
Restarted SM2 and all my old profile info came up just fine with
Browser, Mail, Addresses all looking and acting just like SM1.
After that, I did clean up - went back to Tools|Switch Profile and
deleted the default profile that was set up when I first installed
SM2.
+ + + + + +
Lacking any other suggestion, I tried to follow your approach. Since I
had started with a clean SM v.2.0.1 install, copied all of the messed
up profile information to a CD-R and deleted the profile folders from
both my c:\ partition 'Documents and Settings' directory (folder) and
from the partition and directory where I tried to move the profiles. I
then tried to restart SM. It would NOT restart and returned the error
message:
"SeaMonkey is already running but is not responding. To open an new
window, you must first close the existing SeaMonkey process, or restart
your system".
As I noted previously in response to an earlier suggestion that I don't
understand what it means to "... close the existing SeaMonkey process
..." and I don't see any SeaMonkey processes running when I do
contr-alt-del, I gave up and completely deleted the SM v.2.01
installation with the Control Panel program removal capability. To
make certain that SM was completely gone, I also ran Norton WinDoctor
2005 twice and it found several SM-related registry entries and I
deleted those as well.
I then cold booted the system and downloaded a new copy of the SM
v.2.0.2 installer. The installer reported that SM v.2.0.2 was
installed. When I tried to open SM it would not open and I again
received the error message:
"SeaMonkey is already running but is not responding. To open an new
window, you must first close the existing SeaMonkey process, or restart
your system".
I have now repeated the same total delete and new install process
exactly as indicated above twice and each time get the same error
message. I have been around since the MS-DOS days and, to some degree,
know how to recognize the existence of files within a directory
(folder). The only thing I can think of is that SM has left behind
some hidden file somewhere that I can't see and/or don't know where to
find so it can be removed.
It would really be appreciated if someone could provide some
suggestions on what has caused this error message problem and how to
get out of it. I am way out of my depth. Once I can get SM to run
again, then I can return to the issue of trying to move the profile
folders out of c:\ 'Documents and Settings' to where I want them to be.
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.
I should have mentioned that the computer experiencing this problem is a
966 mHz P3 system running Windows XP-Home SP-3.
Henrik, looks like you've just about done everything possible, but your
computer just doesn't want to let go....
I note you say you checked Cont-Alt-Del panel to check that there was no
SM running in the background...that's my normal first suggestion, so all
I can suggest is when you start up the computer (after the cold start),
is SeaMonkey showing down near the start button??
No, a second thing just occured to me. When you start SM (or at least
it's predecessor Mozilla Suite did), it writes a blank file called (I
think) parent.lock so that you can only have one copy of SeaMonkey
running at one time. With SM all closed out do a system wide search for
parent.lock.
HTH
--
Seasons greeting, one and all....
and may this year be a better one!
Daniel
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