Zeb Carter wrote:
David Wilkinson wrote:
Zeb Carter wrote:
I am in the process of setting up a new computer for a friend of mine -
old computer running XP Home, new computer Win 7. Both have SM 2.0.8.
When I do this, I first close SeaMonkey on the old computer, and copy
the entire profile folder (e.g. salt.profilename) to the new computer.
Then I use the profile manager on the new computer to create a new
profile with the same profile name and use "Choose Folder" to navigate
to the copied profile.
The profile manager is smart enough to realize that it should use the
existing profile in that location, rather than creating a new profile in
that location.
I tried that today. I copied the profiles straight from the cloned drive
to the appropriate folder in Win 7. Started SM, told it to create a new
profile with the name of the profile I ad copied - SM created NEW
profiles with the same name but a different random number sequence in
front of the name.
SM doesn't need to have the random number sequence in the profiles
location, I think it a bit of a security measure.
With-in SM, go to Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles->Create
Profile, give it a distinctive name, then on that screen click on
"Choose Folder", and find where you saved the old profiles location then
select one level above that, so that the profile is a sub-folder of
where you tell SM to look.
i.e. If your profile files are in the directory
C:\Personal\Internet\old_one\profile location, you would tell SM to look
in C:\Personal\Internet\old_one
HTH
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