Richard Owlett wrote:
I am currently running SeaMonkey 2.40 under WinXP Pro on Machine-A.
I wish to run SeaMonkey 2.40 on Machine-B which has Debian Jessie (Mate
as DE).
Downloading the appropriate file, unpacking it, placing results in my
Home folder, and marking seamonkey as executable goes well. As has
creating a launcher on desktop. A test run shows no problems.
I wish to duplicate my profile from Machine-A on Machine-B. The profile
to be in /home/richard.
The good news is that profiles are mostly portable, from platform to
platform. The link you posted in your follow-up notes a couple of small
things to account for -- menu navigation that's slightly different,
differences in fonts, extensions that may be platform-specific, etc.
The key thing is mostly a matter of location.
In Windows, your profile is in %HOMEDIR%\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles. In
Debian-based systems (and I'm assuming that for this Debian and Ubuntu
work the same way), the profile is located in ~/.mozilla/seamonkey.
On the Debian side, what you want to do is launch Seamonkey, and let the
profile manager run -- you don't have to complete it, but let it get as
far as the first dialog. That will be sufficient to create the profile.
The thing that you don't want to do (actually, you can, if you want, but
it's more effort) is to edit the contents of the profiles.ini file. Take
the contents of the directory specified by the profiles.ini file on the
Windows side, and then copy to directory specified by the profiles.ini
on the Debian side.
In discussions of backup methodologies, there are some that insist on
copying profiles.ini, and then if it comes to shuffling profile
contents, editing profiles.ini, and ensuring that a new profile on a new
machine has an identical name as the original profile. For me, I'm
content to use the profile manager, and let it assign the directory
names, and simply copy the contents of the profile directory.
One other suggestion: if you normally do POP for mail, rather than IMAP,
I suggest tweaking the settings on both the old and new profiles to
"leave messages on server", and setting the retention period for
something like a week, at least while you're in transition. Doing this
will allow you to get to all your mail from either machine, until you're
satisfied that everything on the new machine is performing the way you
want. After the transition is complete, you can return to your previous
retention settings.
Smith
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