On 5/25/14 12:56 PM +0900, Jay O'Brien wrote:
On 5/24/2014 3:30 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I've been with SeaMonkey since the Netscape days, and I have
installed it in many computers over the years. Due to my personal
memory problems, I can't remember the details.
I have a new Win 7 Pro SP1 64 bit computer into which I want to
install a clone of my present Win 7 Pro SP1 64 bit installation of
SeaMonkey 2.26. Once SeaMonkey is working the same in both computers,
I plan to use GoodSync to keep the mail files the same. I use
Goodsync now in that manner, except that the recipient computer runs
XP; the new Win 7 computer will take the place of the XP computer.
I recall seeing a reference to on-line cloning instructions, but I
can't find it now.
I suspect I should start by installing SeaMonkey 2.26 in the new
computer, but I will hold off until I get guidance from this
knowledgeable group. Help please? Thanks.
Since you have the same OS and the same version of SM on the two
computers, here's a quick and easy way of doing it. I also assume you
have installed SM on both computers and have the same plugins (Flash,
Acrobat, etc.) on the two computers.
Locate the folder C:\Users\YourWindowsName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\ on
both computers (your Windows username may be different, doesn't matter).
1) With SM closed, rename the one on the target computer to \OldMozilla
or some other distinctive name of your choosing so SeaMonkey won't
notice it.
2) With SM closed, copy the one on the source computer to the target
computer so it's in the same directory as \OldMozilla. SeaMonkey will
see and accept the new \Mozilla.
(Note that if you need to copy to a CD as an intermediate step, you will
have to change the read-only property of all files in the directory back
to "no" after you copy from the CD to the target HDD).
You're done.
Once you're satisfied that all is well, you can delete \OldMozilla. If
it doesn't work, delete the new \Mozilla and unrename \OldMozilla back
to \Mozilla, which will leave you back where you started.
You may have minor glitches if your Helper Applications list points to
things that don't exist on the target computer, but that's easily fixed
by installing the missing apps.
Paul,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that won't work directly for me, as
I just learned. I have all of my mail files on my D drive. What is in the
C:\Users\YourWindowsName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\ folder are some 2010
empty files from when I installed SeaMonkey on the Win 7 computer and
before I set up the D drive. Each of my mail accounts has a folder there
with empty Inbox, Trash and msgFilterRules files.
Here's what I plan to try, your comments please? First I will install
SeaMonkey 2.26 on the new computer. I don't know what I will tell it as
it installs, hopefully it will make sense as I go.
Then I will copy the files as you suggested, and I will duplicate my
D:\Mail folder on the new computer. Then I will go to the "View settings
for this account" entry for each of my email accounts on the new
computer and change the Server Settings > Message Storage Local Directory
entries to agree with the Message Storage Local directory on the working
computer.
Do you think this will work?
Jay
Since your profile files are kinda mixed up, I'd use MozBackup to backup
the profile from the one machine and then restore it to the new one.
It's pretty seamless. The only caveat, in my experience, is that it
doesn't like backing up straight to USB flash memory, so have it backup
to the HDD and then copy the profile to USB or across the network manually.
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