Roger Fink wrote: > 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.
Everything is OK now. Didn't have the heat turned high enough. Either Intel dual cores or personal cognitive powers were negatively impacted, probably the latter. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
