Monica wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Monica wrote:
Mark Hansen wrote:
[ goodness, please trim replies... ]
On 3/22/2010 4:54 AM, Daniel wrote:
O.K., Monica, forget the "Manage Profiles" bit for now. Just select
Tools->Switch profiles and check out what the other profile/s
contains.
When you installed SM 2.0.x, it should have made a copy of your SM
1.1.xx profile (the .slt one) and called the new one ".default". If
your
SM 1 profile is still there, it will not have your latest email, for
example, but would be complete upto your change-over date. Just
check it
out!
Daniel
But doesn't SM 1.x and SM 2.x each place their profile directories in
different locations (by default)? Aren't the two profiles being
discussed
here in the same directory?
That seems suspicious to me.
Yes the two profiles are in the same directory!
So, as Bill suggests, SM 2 installs it's profile somewhere different to
SM 1, so someone changed somewhere.
Or, Monica is it possible that you never set up the Mail & Newgroup side
of SM 2, you just selected your old SM 1 profile and went on surfing??
That´s not possible since the profile sits in the correct SM2
directory. How would it have gotten there without me moving it there?
Let´s skip the question on how the whole thing ever happened and move
on to a solution. Simple question (again), can I just rename my
working profile with the .slt ending and give it the ending .default,
and delete the current .default one?
Daniel
Hi Monica - I'm back again.
In either your browser or your mail window, you will see the item
'Tools' on the top menu bar. Click on this to bring up the menu list
and the bottom item should be 'Switch Profiles'. This should tell you
what profiles you currently have available to your current version on SM.
If you want to be 100% safe, then copy the current active profile folder
(the one with the latest dates on the files) to where you would like it
to be and name it for yourself - you will have to close down all of SM
to enable you to do this. You do not have to bother about any random
numbers in the folder name.
Once you have done this fire back up SM and go back into Switch
Profiles, but this time click on the button in the bottom left corner,
called Manage Profiles and when the next screen comes up, click on the
Create Profile button. Click the next button and on the second screen,
again enter your name for the profile. Once you have done this click on
the Choose Folder button and browse to the new folder that you have
created and select it. The narrative should change to confirm the
correct folder. Then click Finish. This takes you back to the 'Select
User Profile' screen and you can click on the new profile name and then
on the Use Profile button. Make sure the 'Don't ask me at startup box
is ticked.
When you click on the Use Profile button SM should close down and
re-open using the new profile. Check to make sure that everything is
working as it should. At this point in time, you will know exactly
which profile SM is using, the one with your name on it.
You can then go back into Manage Profiles and delete everyone but your
own. When you delete, it will ask you if you want to delete the files.
Tell it yes. Whichever folder disappears will have been the folder that
it was using. You can then manually delete the other folder, leaving
only the one with your name on it.
As mentioned previously, there is no need for your SM files to be stored
in the Documents and Settings folder if you are the only user on your
computer. You can create another folder and store them all in there, so
long as you change the profile folder name and the location of all the
mail account folders (including Local Folders) to that folder's
location. If you then want to back up your emails and SM profile
settings, you simply copy the entire folder to somewhere safe.
Hope that this helps.
EM
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