On 2/27/2010 3:42 PM, Frog wrote: > > Well, I have made a little progress at this point.
Great! > > I now know that the mail ICON I have on my desktop belongs to 1.1.18. > It is located as follows: > C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe" -mail > As I stated my earlier message, C:Program Files\mozilla.org\Seamonkey > contains information pertaining to 1.1.8. I based this fact on going to > Windows Explorer>C:\Program Files\mozilla>selecting Properties>looked at > the Created date of Monday, Feb 04, 2008, 12:20. That tell me that the > ICON on my desktop (before this message) belongs to 1.1.18. Okay. > > I next clicked the web page on my desktop for 2.0.3>clicked Help of the By "clicked on the web page", I assume you mean the desktop shortcut. > Web page>clicked About SeaMonkey>and the window that opened displays > "SeaMonkey Version 2.0.3." I now know that I am in the new SeaMonkey > version. I next clicked Windows>Mail & Newsgroups>and I was taken to > the 2.0.3 mail page. Note; All of the items under Go on the mail page > where my newsgroups and inbox are listed are grayed out. Thus, I now > know that my last message on the newsgroup was prepared on 1.1.18 not > 2.0.3 as I thought. > > Now I need to learn how to make the items listed under Go on the 2.0.3 > mail page turn black. I have no idea what this means. Perhaps you don't have your e-mail or newsgroup accounts setup in your 2.X profile yet? > > My Desktop ICONs point to executable files. Great. I think this is important in being able to keep two different versions of SM on the computer. > > For 1.1.18 I see the following: "C:\Program > Files\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe" -mail Great. > > I have not been doing this up to now. I have been looking at the bottom > of my screen where all of the software items running on my system are > identified in own tabs. I will start checking the task manager before > clicking a SeaMonkey ICON. That would be going too far, IMHO. You do *not* have to check the task manager each time you want to launch SM. If when you launch SM, you don't get the version you think you should, use the task manager as a way to see if you currently have an instance running. Really though, if you don't have the SM 1.1.X quick launch configured, and there are no browser windows visible (on the window or in the task bar) then you're probably good to go. >> >> Note that there is a way to run both at the same time, but this >> requires some additional effort, which I didn't mention as you >> said you didn't want to run them both at the same time. > > I will make this change as soon as I know that both systems are loaded > and working properly--one version at a time. As you can see, I will > need some very elementary lever instructions on how this is accomplished. Note that you don't *need* to run both versions at the same time. In fact you probably don't want to do this at all. Unless you feel you need to do this for some reason, just don't do it. Your plan should be to eventually have just one version of SM on the computer. As soon as you are comfortable with SM 2.X, then stop running SM 1.1.X (and fix up the 'leave messages on server', etc.). >> >> I don't know about where 2.X places it's profile info, so the above >> may or may not be correct. I'll let someone else answer. However, >> SM 1.1.X and SM 2.X will each use their own profile, so I don't >> think it matters too much - so long as you didn't tweak either >> version to use a custom location such that one may be using the >> location used by the other. > > I believe--repeat--I believe that they are separated completely from one > another--at least that is how it appears to this very low level > technician. You shouldn't have to worry about the location of the profiles. Each version of SM will work with the correct profile. If I were you, I would just ignore the profiles for now. > > Thanks to you, I now have working ICONs on my Desktop for both versions. > Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sounds great. > > I now need to know how to fix the grayed out items under the mail > page>Go pertaining to my listing of mail and newsgroup entries. Any > suggestions? See above. Otherwise, I'm not sure what is going on with that. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
