On 11/1/2013 10:02 PM, Ken Rudolph wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 11/1/2013 8:12 PM, Ken Rudolph wrote: >>> I'm sorry if this is old news; but could somebody explain to me how I >>> can transfer my bookmark toolbar and all my usual bookmarks from my >>> desktop SM 2.22 Win-7 profile to a new version of SM 2.22 Win-8.1 on a >>> new computer? Actually, I got it to work before; but I had to refresh >>> Windows today and lost all the former program files. I'm able to find >>> the SM files in application data on both computers. But I can't seem to >>> find any file which holds bookmarks. Please help me. >>> >> >> Bookmarks are in places.sqlite. >> >> The best way to transfer bookmarks is to open the Bookmarks Manager on >> the source system and export them by selecting [Tools > Export HTML] on >> the Bookmarks Manager menu bar. Find the bookmarks.html file on that >> system and copy it to the target system. On the target system, select >> [Tools > Import HTML] and navigate to the bookmarks.html file. > > I did it another way before I read this. Just copying the places.sqlite > file from one computer to the other (they're networked, so it was easy > to do). That seemed to work. Have I screwed up by doing it this way? > > --Ken >
No, you did nothing wrong if everything seems to be working okay. I also copied places.sqlite from a Windows XP system to a Windows 7 system without any problems. However, copying places.sqlite between very unlike systems might not work (e.g., between Mac and Windows). -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Where does your elected official stand? Which politicians refuse to tell us where they stand? See the non-partisan Project Vote Smart at <http://votesmart.org/>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
