Daniel wrote:
On 31/12/14 09:34, Dick Hoffman wrote:
We are slowly moving off an XP system to a new computer under Win 8.1.
I've installed SeaMonkey 2.30 and used Mozbackup to copy the profile
from the XP system to the 8.1 system. On the XP system, my wife and I
share a single SeaMonkey profile and share an email account. On the Win
8.1 system the profile was placed under my account as
C:\Users\Dick\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla...)and when my wife signed on it
built a new profile for her in her account as
C:\Users\Jean\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla.... Is there a way to set up a
profile folder in a common area somewhere so that we have one shared
profile as we did under XP? If so where and how do I do it?
Dick, I would tend to say "Yes", but how you would go about it ... I
don't know!
On this computer, I dual boot Win7 and Mageia Linux and use the one
profile, located on my Win E:\, for both OS's. I have very little
knowledge of Win8, so am guessing..... Is it possible for you to "see"
and locations in your wife's system, maybe you can set Win8 up to have a
common location that you both can see, and then do custom instillations
of SM so it access the common profile in this common location.
Apart from this, I have no idea.
It can be done but it is a very bad idea, because you can really screw
things up if you switch profiles while the former profile still has
SeaMonkey running. A far better idea to share an email account with more
than one user is to use IMAP and then different profiles would have
access via a server to the same mail.
But if you insist. Copy the WinXP profile folder [SOME_SALT].default to
some commonly shared location on Win8.1. For this example I will choose
C:\Users\Public\SeaMonkey
The path to the profile will not be:
C:\Users\Public\SeaMonkey\[SOME_SALT].default
Then in each profile goto:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey
Edit the profile.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
; Change IsRelative for 1 to 0
IsRelative=0
; comment out the existing NEW profile
; Path=Profiles/[WIN8.1_SALT].default
; and add absolute path to profile in Public
Path=\Users\Public\SeaMonkey\[SOME_SALT].default
Do this for both profiles with the same info. Of course you need to
replace [SOME_SALT] with whatever your WinXP profile salt was. When you
are in either profile will will be using the *same* profile folder. So
this really is a bad idea. List of caveats
* profile location must be writable from both profiles
* you must fully logout from one profile before logging if from the other
* it still might get foobared despite above precautions.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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