On 7/25/2017 4:06 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 7/25/2017 8:14 AM, meagain wrote:
On 7/25/2017 10:46 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 7/25/2017 6:33 AM, Ray_Net wrote:
meagain wrote on 25-07-17 13:46:
Why do I have to make backups of the SM 'profile' - couldn't the profile
just be in Dropbox?
If you do an action that destroy your profile, It will be destroyed in
your dropbox.
It's not so difficult to copy, when SM in not running, your current profile:
C:\Users\<myuser>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ey8r9gln.default
Into per exemple this directory: C:\MYBACKUP\SM\PROFILE\2.46\2017-july-17\
My five profiles are NOT anywhere on my C-drive. I believe I am not the
only SeaMonkey user who has put profiles elsewhere.
To find your profiles, enter about:profiles in SeaMonkey's address area
(URI area).
Dropbox has a directory "Apps" where some applications store their data,
each in its own folder. In case of damage DB backs-up all versions for a
month (free).
So, David, how does one 'move' a profile to another c-drive?
If your profile will be exactly in the same location on the new C-drive
where it was on your old C-drive, install SeaMonkey. Then over-write
the new profile.ini on the new C-drive with the profiles.ini your old
C-drive. Open the resulting profiles.ini file to see where your profile
was stored on your old C-drive and the Windows internal folder name
used; copy that folder from your old C-drive to the same location on
your new C-drive.
If, however, you choose to place your profile in a difference location
on the new C-drive --
1. Locate the file profiles.ini on your new C-drive as I indicated
earlier in this thread.
2. Open profiles.ini in a plain text editor (e.g., Notepad, Wordpad,
but NOT Word).
3. Where you see something like
Name=alt
that specifies the name of the profile (here "alt") seen in the Profile
Manager or used with the -p option when launching SeaMonkey.
4. Where you see something like
Path=xxx
"xxx" is the Windows internal name of the profile folder. This is where
you indicate the new path to your moved profile, complete from the drive
letter to the Windows internal folder name. Since that will be a
complete path, then you will also need
IsRelative=0
to indicate the path is NOT relative to where your profiles.ini file is
located.
NOTE WELL: Do NOT move the file profiles.ini. SeaMonkey will look for
it only where you found it in step #1.
In my configuration, my browser is not on my C-drive; and my five
profiles are on a third drive. In my profiles.ini, I have five
instances of
[Profilen]
Name=xxx
IsRelative=0
Path=zzz
Default=1
where the "n" in Profilen is a number from 0 to 4 for my five profiles.
"xxx" is the various names of my profiles. All my paths (zzz) are
complete, not relative.
Default=1 appears to be set whenever I change profiles. You should
leave this alone if it exists. I think it determines which profile to
use if, instead of launching Firefox, you select an Internet shortcut
that causes Windows to automatically launch SeaMonkey.
Note: With a changed loacation for your profile, you might need to edit
the file prefs.js. Either do this in SeaMonkey by putting about:config
in the address area, or else terminate SeaMonkey and do this in a
plain-text editor. Each preference that refers to a Windows path needs
to be examined to determine if that path should be changed to reflect
the changed path to the profile. BE VERY CAREFUL when you do this. It
is best to backup file prefs.js before attempting to modify it.
In prefs.js I see a very hairy element like this:
user_pref("extensions.xpiState",
"{\"app-profile\":{\"[email protected]\":{\"d\":\"C:\\\\Users\\\\Rick\\\\AppData\\\\Roaming\\\\Mozilla\\\\SeaMonkey\\\\Profiles\\\\qq...
that resembles 'path'. Can I just remove this user_pref() ? Assuming I
do not use any extensions (or do I?)?
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