Larry S. wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:
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.
Thank you for a good hint. We double checked that she was, in fact,
using the new profile. We verified that both profiles existed, and
checked that both appeared in the "profiles.ini" file (which your
pointing to the Mozillazine article made me aware of). Further the
"ini" file pointed to the new profile.
So, what was the problem? It was simple, and stupid, operator error, as
so many are. I hadn't noticed that the home page pointer in Preferences
was still pointing the Default profile. Fixed that, and voila!, problem
solved. Wouldn't have checked that for a long time if you hadn't started
me along the right path. So, thank you again!
Larry
Happy to help, Larry.
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
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