On 8/23/2014 9:19 AM, NO wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 8/19/2014 7:11 PM, SamuelS wrote:
>>> On 19-Aug-14 21:05, Chris Ilias wrote:
>>>> On 2014-08-19 8:28 PM, NO wrote:
>>>>> Chris Ilias wrote:
>>>>>> On 2014-08-19 8:41 AM, SamuelS wrote:
>>>>>>> You were so helpful previously in terms of guiding me in moving files
>>>>>>> from my c: drive to d: drive, now I find that that my 2nd profile may
>>>>>>> not have been moved. Can someone advise how I can find that profile on
>>>>>>> the c: drive so I can get it moved?
>>>>>> This page should help:
>>>>>> <http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#transferring>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This profile is the one which is taking up over 30% of my drive space
>>>>>>> currently...
>>>>>> That doesn't sound right. What makes you think it's taking up so much
>>>>>> space? How small is your HD?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I have made the new profile and located it in the new directory, now I
>>>>> receive a message " SeaMonkey cannot use the profile "Default1" It may
>>>>> be in use, unavailable or damage. Please choose another profile or
>>>>> create a new one".
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the 3rd profile and still not able to access...
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the next move?
>>>> Make sure SeaMonkey is closed when you copy the files over.
>>>>
>>> Hello Chris,
>>>
>>> I re-sent the files to the new location and still cannot remove the
>>> extra profiles or link to the moved files...
>>>
>>> What have I done to prevent this?
>>>
>>> TIAA... bo1953
>>>
>> Locate the file profiles.ini. It should be in
>> <C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\profiles.ini>, where
>> "xxx" is your Windows user name (NOT a SeaMonkey profile name). That
>> file contains the pointers to your profiles.
>>
>> In profiles.ini, you should see all profiles listed, with their names,
>> locations, and a flag that indicates whether the locations are complete
>> or relative to the location of profile.ini. An example is:
>> [Profile0]
>> Name=SamuelS
>> IsRelative=0
>> Path=C:\myprofiles\SeaMonkey\Sam
>> Default=1
>> This means this is the first profile (numbered from 0), the profile is
>> named "SamuelS", that the Path is complete, the profile is at
>> <C:\myprofiles\SeaMonkey\Sam> (no security hash in the name in the form
>> of uchx8jc7.Sam), and that this is your primary (default) profile. (For
>> my own use, I did not use hashes to name the folders where I placed my
>> profiles since my profiles are "hidden" by placing them on a drive other
>> than C.)
>>
>> If you new profiles are not indicated in profiles.ini, that is the cause
>> of your problem. In a plain-text editor (e.g., Notepad, Wordpad, but
>> NOT Word), edit the file to add your new profiles and point to them.
>> Each profile has a unique {Profilen], where "n" is a number (e.g.,
>> [Profile1], [Profile2], [Profile3], etc).
>>
> David,
>
> Looking at this today and I find that the IsRelative=0 for three (3)
> accounts and three of them have the same Path.
>
> Can I delete the ones I do not want or need or how to reset?
>
> As well, how can change, safely, [Profile1] to be [Profile2], if this is
> feasible?
>
> TIA - SamuelS
>
Any such modification to profiles.ini or to the profile folders should
be done with SeaMonkey completely terminated.
Do you wish to remove some profiles that all point to the same Windows
folder? Then, yes, edit profiles.ini to remove their entries. If you
are removing ALL the profiles that point to the same Windows folder also
remove the folder to which the profiles.ini entries pointed.
If there are entries in profiles.ini after the removed entries, they
should indeed be renumbered so that the {Profilen] are sequential.
I suggest that you backup your entire system before starting this, just
in case you clobber something you should not have touched. Once you get
experienced in this kind of process, such a special backup should no
longer be necessary.
--
David E. Ross
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