Larry S. wrote:
Very helpful! That does let me recover any "missing" mail, but it doesn't keep me from having to recreate all my mail and news accounts from scratch before I copy the file. Guess there's no easy way to recover the entire profile. Bummer!
You say "recover", but it sounds like you just want to move your data to another location.
The profile is data. Mail/news is data. The default has mail/news stored with the profile, that is not necessary.
I have commonly use three computers - WEB, work and a laptop for the road. I maintain all the same data on all of them. No data or browser/mail program is ever on a boot partition. All computers have at least two OSs, and all data is used by both OSs. All this is maintained by a file manager; just copy, no import, export, recover,,,.
You can have as many profiles available as you want, and you can name them anything you want. If you are having problems, or just want try modifying something, leave you existing profile, and create a test profile. If you have a profile you want to use that resides somewhere else, or you want to move the one you are using, just copy it to where you want it to be. Run SM from a shortcut. Multiple SM versions can all reside on the same partition; you just have to rename the sub-directories from the default "seamonkey". Each version has it's own shortcut. In each shortcut, open properties. Make the run line look like this. H:\SM272-Win\seamonkey.exe -Profilemanager. Now when you run SM it will first open Profilemanager. Go to manage profiles > create new profile. Tell it to "create" the profile you previously copied. It will use that profile. It will upgrade 1X to 2.0, or 2.0 to 2.7.
I also move mail/news out of the profile. So I have the SM apps on an apps partition and profiles and mail on a data partition, in separate trees.
Have fun Ray _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
