Larry S. wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Larry S. wrote:
My wife received her new computer (Windows 7). She d/l SM 2.14 then, to
recover her profile from her older computer, we copied the saved copy
from her thumb drive and pasted it into a new profile which we had
emptied out.
SM fails when she tries to start using the new profile, saying it can't
find the "bookmarks.html" file from her *default* profile (the one we
supposedly aren't using). Note: On her old computer her SM home page was
"Bookmarks.html", which somehow doesn't show up in the copied profile.
Questions: What did we do wrong? Why can't she use the saved/copied
profile?
Larry
Larry, what version of SeaMonkey was your wife using?? Since Ver 2.1 or
so, bookmarks (and History and some other stuff) have been stored in a
file called places.sqlite
Good question, Daniel, but probably not the issue. She's using 2.14, but
here's the problem. While the notice is that the file can't be found, it
says that it can't be found in the *default* profile. The problem is
that at the time she's using the *new* profile, so there shouldn't be a
search for the file in the other one. Seems to be the wrong message, but
we can't make it go away.
Are you /sure/ she's using the new profile? Did you create a new
shortcut pointing to the new profile? If not, SM will use the default
it created.
Note: Of course there's no "bookmarks.html" in the default profile since
that was part of the brand new d/l of 2.14 into the brand new computer.
The file has not been created yet. But that's the wrong place to look!
Questions: (1) Was copying the profile contents from the saved copy into
a newly-created profile the right way to do it?, and
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_SeaMonkey
(2) Was there
something else to do to use the new profile, other than Tools>Switch
Profiles?
Hmm. I've never used that method so I can't be sure. I use customized
shortcuts specifying the profile.
http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz_commands.php
I suggest you create a new shortcut (or modify the existing one) to
point to the new profile and use that to start SM.
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
A day without sunshine is like night.
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