David E. Ross wrote on 1/5/2015 11:44 AM:
On 1/5/2015 6:59 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
I previously wrote:
First, make a clean install of SeaMonkey on the new PC.
It is most simple if your profile resides at the equivalent place on
your new PC that they were on the old PC. For example, I have a profile
named David (my name) at <D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David>. (Note
that I eliminated the random part of the folder name at the end of the
path.) On a new PC -- same or different version of Windows -- I would
move this to the same path.
Finally, I would locate the file profiles.ini for SeaMonkey on the new
PC. In Windows 7, this is something like
<C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey>, where "xxxx" for me
is David. Edit that file to point to your new profile. For me, the
file profiles.ini begins:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0
[Profile0]
Name=David
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\Mozilla profiles\SeaMonkey\David
Default=1
I don't recall mozilla ever using Windows backslash, always forward so I
think that should be:
D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David
and you might have to quote if there is a space in the path:
"D:/Mozilla profiles/SeaMonkey/David"
I would advise NOT using spaces in you path:
Path=D:/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/David
A few years ago, I decided that I wanted my profiles on the hard drive
that I used for data, in an esily reached folder that contained both
SeaMonkey and Thunderbird profiles. I edited the content of
profiles.ini for SeaMonkey and for Thunderbird, using the format of
paths that already existed there but just changing where they pointed.
This involved \ instead of /, and it did not involve quoting where there
were blanks. The profiles.ini files I had to leave where they were.
Everything worked okay and still works.
I copied part of the current content of my SeaMonkey profiles.ini for my
reply quoted above.
The IsRelative=0 indicates that the Path term is a complete path and not
a path relative to where the file profiles.ini resides. I have three
other profiles, each for a special purpose. For those extra profiles,
there is [Profile1], [Profile2], and [Profile3]; they have Default=0.
I am very glad I did my profiles this way. When I had to reinstall
Windows 7 because malware blocked me from even booting, my profiles were
not touched. I did not lose any bookmarks, history, or (for
Thunderbird) E-mails. Also, my C-disc is not very large. My scheme
moves the profiles to a separate hard drive that is much larger.
You do not backup? You could not access the drive with another system?
Of course I backup. I do it weekly. But if I cannot boot, I cannot
restore from a backup. I was doing backups by folders, not by
partitions. Now I backup by partitions.
Most good backup programs allow you to create a bootable CD/DVD to boot
from and restore a partition backup. Mine does and I've used it.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
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never believed in Hell until I met you.
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