On 2/12/2017 6:04 PM, (Nuno Silva) wrote:
On 2017-12-02, Daniel wrote:
I have been trying to set up my Linux SeaMonkey to use the same
profile files as my Win7 SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on my Win E:\ drive. In
doing this, I had stuffed up the location, you know, that bit where
you select a location for the Profile .... and SeaMonkey puts the
Profile in a folder *BELOW* that selected location!! This has resulted
in my Windows SeaMonkey, when I boot up the Mail & News Screen,
listing all the abook.mab, booklist.xml, blocklist-addons.json,
bookmarkbackups, Cache, cache2, cert8.db, etc, etc, something like 50
files and folders showing up on-screen in my Win7 SeaMonkey e-mail
account screen.
No problem, I thought, its about time I had a new profile and then I
could just copy over the required files and then, after some time, I
could delete and remove all the old profiles and their
files/folders. Or so I thought!!
I started SeaMonkey, went to Tools->Switch Profiles, selected "Manage
Profile" then "Create Profile" and created a new Profile. Of course, I
like to install my Profiles where I want, on my E:\, so on the second
screen, I selected "Choose Folder" and selected where I wanted the
Profile on the E:\ drive.
When I finished the Profile creation, I noticed the "Create Profile
Wizard" screen showed that my "user settings, preferences and other
user-related data" would be stored at
C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default
User.
No problem, I thought, that's just where "they" store the extraneous
part of the Profile. Then I went looking for my profile and it wasn't
anywhere near where I had told SeaMonkey to put it! I then tried to
create a new Profile directly under my E:\ .... and it didn't show up,
but still the
C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(gobble-de-gook.Default
User was showing up on the Create Profile Wizard.
What am I doing wrong?? Or is the "Create Profile Wizard" broken in
that it will not allow me to put a Profile where I want it?? Could
someone else try creating a new Profile using the "Create Profile
Wizard" on Win7 or, possible 10, in SeaMonkey 2.49.1??
TIA
I don't have a lot of experience with profile directories and the
profile manager, but it is probably worth a try to look at the
profiles.ini file (yours should be at
C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\profiles.ini
, I guess).
If Linux can read and write safely to the Windows filesystem, and this
is always mounted, you could consider even creating a symbolic link on
the linux side, that would "place" the windows profile folder in the
directory where the linux seamonkey expects to find the profiles:
ln -s
'/mnt/windows/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/(gobble-de-gook.Default
User'
$HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/windows.default
(All in one line; the single quotes will be needed if the actual path
does have a parenthesis or some space) and then adding windows.default
to profiles.ini on the linux side:
[ProfileN]
Name=windows
IsRelative=1
Path=windows.default
N is usually a sequential number (entries here are Profile0 and
Profile1). I don't know if it *must* be sequential, but just check what
entries do you have and pick the next "available" number. The
profiles.ini file on linux should be at
$HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini .
Going back to windows, about putting the profile somewhere else, you can
also set IsRelative=0 and set it to the path under E:\. This would be
the full path to the actual directory/folder containing all the profile
files ("(gobble-de-gook.Default User").
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file
When doing this close all seamonkey instances and, just to be safe, make
backups of profiles.ini and all your profiles.
Thank you for your response, Nuno. Perhaps I didn't explain myself
sensibly but I have, for years, shared the same profile between my Win7
and my assorted Linux versions. As Linux can "see" Windows Drives (but
Windows cannot "see" Linux mount points natively), I've always (well,
for a very long time) had my SeaMonkey Profile files on a Windows drive
and just set-up the Linux SeaMonkey Profile.ini to point directly to the
Windows Profile files. As I'm either in Windows7 or I'm in Linux, there
is no conflict
The situation I (tried to) describe above is just looking at creating a
new Windows7 SeaMonkey on a Windows7 Drive ..... at the moment!! ;-)
--
Daniel
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418
Go Dallas Cowgirls!! .... Err!! ... Um!! .. I mean *Go Dallas Cowboys* !!
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