On 17/05/2016 00:31, NFN Smith wrote:
Michael wrote:
Will "Mozilla Backup" be OK to use if I install Seamonkey on my other
machines? I'm thinking of "Mozilla Backup" not being developed any more
and wondering if this would affect the backup transfer with data not
being recognised etc.
I've used MozBackup for years, including moving profiles from one
machine to another, with SeaMonkey, Firefox and Thunderbird.
The abandonment of development shouldn't be an issue -- that just means
no bug fixes, or new features. However I don't believe that core
capacity is affected.
Ultimately MozBackup isn't really much more than a graphical front-end
for copying your profile contents into a .ZIP-format archive. Yes,
there's some nice features for inclusion/exclusion of specific parts of
a profile (e.g., exclude cookies, etc.) but as long as there aren't
significant architectural changes in profiles, I doubt that there's
going to be any issues.
If you're not comfortable with trusting MozBackup, it's easy enough to
simply copy the entire profile. For that, what you want is to copy the
contents from %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles\<salt.name>\*
On the new machine, some advocate that you copy the
.\Profiles\profiles.ini file, and ensure that the profile folders have
identical names, but in my experience, that isn't necessary. I've found
no problems with simply starting the profile creation wizard far enough
to create the profile folder, and then copying the profile contents from
the other machine -- it's not a problem, if the folder names aren't
identical.
Smith
Thanks for replying. I will do as you have suggested.
Michael
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