NFN Smith wrote: > 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.
Or simply rename profiles.ini on the Debian side to profiles.ini.DISABLE and then copy the Windows profiles.ini & profile directory to the Debian side directory. Start SeaMonkey and enjoy all your stuff. Have done this many, many times. Once everything looks okay you can delete the profiles.ini.DISABLE and original Debian profile directory. Easy-peasy. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
