If you're not familiar with http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/ maybe you
should familiarize yourself with it. Some of what you're looking for is there.
Profiles can be located wherever you wish, and named whatever you wish. e.g.,
you could create E:\Internet\Profiles\aysmp1 to be the actual profile
location for your own personal default profile. To use that location, open SM
using the --ProfileManager option, then type in aysmp1 as the profile name,
then choose E:\Internet\Profiles\aysmp1 as its location. To populate it with
all your existing profile data, with SM closed, find your existing profile's
location, and copy its content to E:\Internet\Profiles\aysmp1. If
E:\Internet\Profiles\aysmp1 is the same actual disk location for both WinXP
and Win7, then whichever of either you have booted will use the exact same
profile.
WRT profile creation, another option is simply to install SM, let it create a
default profile normally, then close SM and edit the plain text profiles.ini
file it created to point to the location you've chosen/created. Or, leave the
default alone, and add your new one.
Most of most days, I'm running a minimum of two different SM versions and
three different FF versions at once. I've been running multiple Mozillas at
once for over a decade. I'm not a software developer of any kind. ATM on this
machine, I have 10 FF profiles and 6 SM profiles.
Don't let Mozilla profiles intimidate you. If you know how to backup and
restore, the worst than can happen is you need to use those skills when you
make a mistake, and maybe loose a couple of emails or web history entries.
I've needed to restore several times over the years, but essentially I'm
using the same primary SM profile that I used for the first Mozilla Suite
version I ever used, long before v1.0 was released, and it was probably
migrated from Netscape 4, which was probably migrated originally from
Netscape 2.02 (on OS/2). Along the way I migrated my primary profile to Linux
from OS/2, probably around the time Mozilla transitioned from 1.7.13 to SM 1.x.
I have several Windows installations with SM installed too, though use them
very little, maybe an hour a month or less on average. Managing profiles is
really not hard, only unfamiliar, because need to arises so infrequently. SM
(and FF) users are really blessed to have what we have persist so well over
time and through OS upgrades.
--
"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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