Interviewed by CNN on 12/04/2013 19:56, Philip TAYLOR told the world: > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> Your docs, pics, etc. aren't on C:? If not, why is your SeaMonkey >> profile not in the same vicinity? The default Windows location of >> profile data for SeaMonkey (and most other user data) is ludicrous. >> User data shouldn't be lost in a deep nest amongst system data, >> program data and programs. >> >> You can put your SeaMonkey profile data wherever you please. You >> should put it wherever is most convenient for you to access, backup >> and restore. Once you decide on a location, copy or move it from the >> current location there, then find SeaMonkey's profile.ini file, and >> edit it to match your profile to its new location. > > I agree that the default location for most user data is crazy, > which is why all of my systems have at least two discs each with > multiple partitions, but I also think that your first question > may be based on a faulty premise : some backup agents will > backup documents, pictures, etc., from their Windows default > location on the C: drive yet flatly refuse to allow the whole > of C: to be backed up; I have, in these circumstances, actually > had to create a junction point on another drive in order to > overcome this, something that relatively few users would know > how to do.
There's not much point in backing up the ENTIRETY of drive C: with standard backup software. That would include all of Windows itself, and the installed programs -- which are hard to restore without having Windows running in the first place. Although the Windows 7 built-in backup tool apparently does so. If you really want to backup all of that, you are better off with a disk imaging software rather than a backup software -- that will copy even non-file structures such as the boot records. Backing up the C:\Users folder (or C:\Documents and Settings for XP), however, is a different matter. Most software (including Seamonkey) will by default store data somewhere in that folder tree. If you have that tree and any other folders that you or some software you uses created in C:\, you should have all or nearly all your data. If you have an intact profile folder (the ones inside C:\Users), there are tools to "reactivate" the profile in a reformatted computer, or even in a different computer -- as long as you don't change Windows major versions, that is. You can move profiles from Vista to Windows 7 with no significant problems, and you could do the same from 2000 to XP, if you had a machine running Windows 2000, that is. But it does not work that way for moving from XP to 7, nor from 7 to 8. Two such tools: 1. ForensIT User Profile Wizard: http://www.forensit.com/downloads.html 2. ReProfiler: http://iwr.cc/reprofiler -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Odyssey2. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.17 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
