Geoff Walker wrote:
In article <[email protected]>,
Rufus <[email protected]> wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Geoff Walker wrote:
For over a year now I have not been using SM's browser on a day-to-day
basis, ever since SM browser "forgot" all my bookmarks and history, even
though Mail continues to work just fine. It's as though SM browser is
unable to see my profile. At the time it happened I posted here for
help but with no joy.
Since then I have been using Safari day-to-day, but I still use SM
browser from time to time when some site doesn't work properly on
Safari. Today on just such an accasion, shortly after SM browser told
me it had blocked some pop-up windows, it re-opened my "previous"
session, ie the last session before my problems began over a year ago!
However it still couldn't see any bookmarks or history.
At the top of the visible tab on the frontmost window this message was
displayed this message :
"The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of
SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security
software can cause this problem."
I don't have any security software that I'm aware of. Can anyone use
this message to diagnose and solve my problem?
Thanks,
Geoff
Geoff, on Windows systems, SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite did have a problem
where it would not close down properly (due to system crashes,
whatever), so the "prefs.js" file would be marked as still in use, so
when SeaMonkey was re-started, a new, empty, profile would be created.
Don't know if this was/is your problem!!
Have a look at Tools->Switch Profiles. Do you see more profiles than you
thought you had?? If so, check out the others to see if they contain
your missing bookmarks.
If that doesn't fix your problem, your bookmarks and history (and some
other stuff) are now (since ver 2.1, I think) stored in a file called
"places.sqlite". With SeaMonkey closed, do a search for this to see if
you have more than one. If so, in a thread called "Is there a way to
merge two different two local places.sqlite file copies together?" from
earlier today, David E Ross has provided a method of combining two
places.sqlite files.
HTH!
Before doing all the heavy lifting, try running Disk Utility and do a
Repair Permissions. Also try running a utility like Onyx to flush
cashes and temporary files.
Thankyou fellows for your suggestions. It's taken me a little time to
respond as I've been exploring both of them. But with both your
suggestions I've now fixed the problem.
First I found, downloaded and used Onyx. On its own that didn't fix the
problem, although cleaning up one's files is always a good thing to do!
Moving on to Daniel's suggestions, I only have one profile so the issue
of merging places.sqlite files wasn't going to be the solution. But the
mention of places.sqlite made me look more closely, and I noticed that I
had two other places.sqlite files, namely places.sqlite-journal and
places.sqlite.corrupt, both last modified on 24/7/2011, about the time
that SM browser stopped seeing my profile.
Some googling led me to
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite and I was able
to use the suggestion there about deleting both places.sqlite and
places.sqlite-journal, and then renaming places.sqlite.corrupt to
places.sqlite to give me back my SM browser's full functionality.
I'm not sure how the solution I found ties into the message I had
previously received :
"The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of
SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security
software can cause this problem.",
but I don't care and I'm very happy!
Many thanks,
Geoff
Glad to hear you're happy, Geoff!
--
Daniel
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