Paul B. Gallagher wrote, on 10 out 16 17:49:
Alexander Yudenitsch wrote:
A happy coincidence that you decided to do so, since I already had
the intention of writing you, to ask for details about your migration
of SM from XP to W7 -- but let's leave that for a little later, OK?
I can't promise to remember the details of what I did so long ago...
IIRC, I upgraded the OS from XP to Win2000 while SM was already
installed, and it just ran without further action on my part. And then I
did the same thing again when going from Win2000 to Win7.
But don't quote me -- it's been over a decade, and I can't swear that
I'm reembering correctly.
I distinctly remember someone on this forum commenting on how he (yes,
it was a 'he', AFAIK) had migrated a profile from XP to W7, and I
thought that was you; well, apparently not... I did try to find that
message among the hundreds of the 'current' batch but, not remembering
what was the 'nominal' subject, I guess its hopeless.
Don't you mean that you "upgraded the OS from W2K to WXP while SM was
already installed, and it just ran without further action on [your]
part"? After all, XP came after 2k (which came after W95, all of which
I used in turn)... And, yes, going from W2K to WXP was nearly
effortless (as I remember, the main difference was that instead of a
WINNT directory, we had a WINDOWS one), but I think you misremember:
The directory structure in W7 is quite different from the WXP one
(although they did add 'link-like directories' so you can use old-style
addresses.
I made a 'trial install' of SM in W7, just to see where it'd put its
files, and they seem to be 'all over the place' -- but I'm still
learning the ropes concerning this, which is why I'd like to know
exactly what others did, migrating SM from XP to W7.
BTW, I think my SM profile has accumulated several glitches over the
years (it's basically the same one since Netscape..): Lately, I've been
having problems (apparently involving javascript) on some sites, which
work fine on a copy of FireFox I installed for exactly such cases -- so,
I was thinking about creating a fresh new profile in W7, and then
migrating what I need, and reinstalling the extensions which work better
that way, but I'm afraid I'll never catch all the 'ramifications' (eg,
there are extensions which place their data in "about:config", which I
only recently discovered), so I"m undecided...
--
Thanks beforehand for your attention, and I hope to hear from you soon.
s) Alexander Yudenitsch <ale...@postpro.net>
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