DoctorBill wrote:
I CAN find the appdata folder on my C drive with search (searched for
abook.mab) !
But it WILL NOT show up on Windows Explorer !
See next line below of results from search for 'abook.mab' on my C drive.
"file:///C:/Users/Pc/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/********.default/abook.mab"
I want to put my previous (from SM 1.1.1) 'abook.mab' into the new SM
profile, but I cannot get to it ! I did a SM Backup in 12/2016 of my
old SM on an XP computer.
This is a place where it helps to use environment variables to
disambiguate locations, rather than trying to figure it out yourself.
For the path specified here, use:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\********.default
I believe that this is the way that Mozilla developers use to locate
user profiles, and in your context, that's important if you're using
Windows XP. Beginning with Vista, Microsoft did some rework of folder
layout within profiles (especially with AppData). Also, as a default,
the AppData folder is normally hidden, unless you tweak Explorer's
settings to show hidden folders.
Use of the environment variable gets you around both of those issues,
and it's shorter typing not having to use the drive letter, your user
name, and remember whether you want AppData\Roaming or AppData\Local.
On the point about differences between XP and Win 6.x (Vista and later)
the effect is that if you have scripting that accesses a profile, then
the script will work without difficulty, whether you're running XP or a
later version, even if the physical locations are different. I believe
that this also applies to other applications, not just Mozilla, in that
application data normally is located in whatever folder %APPDATA% points
to, regardless of the physical location.
There are a number of environment variables that are normally set in
Windows, and the most frequent use is in scripting and other
programming, but occasionally, can be useful to the end user,
particularly in places where you need to navigate frequently to
something that's way down in the directory hierarchy. Windows shortcuts
can be useful, but for certain things, it can be useful to set and use
environment variables. On my own primary working machine, I have a
couple of environment variables set, to make things easy to get to.
Besides the address bar in the Windows Explorer, in Win 7, I can also
use an environment variable in the search bar in the Windows Start
button, and and where paths resolve in the same way as with the address bar.
Smith
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