paul marwick wrote:
I've done this before, but not for a long time, and I can't find my
notes on how to do it, or remember the steps I took the last time I
needed to do it....
Since upgrading to 2.0.4, I've noticed some odd rendering problems. The
most easily reproduced was on Distorwatch.com, where images that
normally appear to the left of the brief write-ups of new releases were
not vivivle. Older versions of Seamonkey were displaying them, as was
Firefox.
After some checking, it looks as though something has got munged in my
upgrade. Renaming ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla.old and letting Seamonkey
create a new profile fixes the problem.
What I now need to do is migrate passwords, mail and bookmarks to a new
profile. Bookmarks are no problem (obviously), but I can't remember how
to migrate the mail, mail settings and passwords to the new profile. Can
anyone give me step-by-step instructions?
I would also like to be able to share the mail between multiple
profiles, but I'm not sure what the best way of doing so is. In the
past, I've shared the whole profile amongst a couple of different Linux
distros (by creating a symlink from ~/.mozilla to other home
directories). While this has worked in the past, I'm wondering if it may
have contributed to the recent problem, and I'm also wondering if only
sharing the mail would be safer.
Paul.
Paul the files you are interested in are:-
Bookmarks in bookmarks.html
Incoming mail in inbox (the one without the .msf, it's only an index
file and can be rebuilt when needed.)
outgoing mail in sent (the one without the .msf, it's only an index file
and can be rebuilt when needed.)
Rename the files to oldinbox and oldsent (or whatever) and copy them to
the same location as your new inbox and sent file. then, in SeaMonkey,
move the contents into your new files.
Your passwords, .....I'm not sure, maybe someone else!
As for sharing profiles, I dual boot Win7 and MandrivaLinux. I have my
profile in Win7 and just point my MandrivaLinux SeaMonkey at the Windows
location. Not a problem. You should be able to do the same thing in
various version of Linux, just point the various SM to the one profile.
HTH
Daniel
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