Rob wrote: > Roger Fink <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've installed SeaMonkey 2.0.14 on a second computer (Win7). I >> intend to upgrade the version but for now I just want to replicate >> the SeaMonkey installation on my older machine running XP. All of >> the extensions and themes have been installed. >> >> Here's the problem I'm having. None of the basic files I've copied >> and pasted in from the older profile are overriding the ones in the >> profile of the new installation.. I'm having to recreate the basic >> settings from scratch. The files I've tried to paste in so far are >> userchrome.css, bookmarks.html, menuedit.rdf, and prefbar.rdf. No >> success with any of these. > > I'm not sure if that is a proper way of migrating configuration... > I know it has worked for me, but only for relatively small version > increments. Older config files are converted to newer formats for > some time, but after a number of releases the conversion is dropped. > > Besides, the filenames you mention (with the exception of > bookmarks.html) don't look familiar to me. They likely require > references from the prefs.js? > > Don't copy files one by one but copy an entire working profile > directory tree and first try with the software version it was created > with.
At least the flexible spacers work, as they probably were all along. Since items such as prefbar didn't accept the copied in settings, there was a lot of clutter on the menu bar at the expense of everything else, which probably explains it. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
