Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
I am just doing some fixes for 2.55+ in a vm and there at least it seems
to be a bit stubborn. If you create and select the folder your profile
location will be overwritten. But if you create the folder and then
change the profile name it works. Was able to create a profile
D:\profiled\u5kls6wt.UserD1 and it shows in about:support .
Don't think it is different in 2.49.1. This code hasn't been changed for
years I think.
FRG
Daniel wrote:
On 3/12/2017 2:21 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Daniel wrote:
On 2/12/2017 9:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
The system has worked well over the last umpteen years. It is only a
problem when I stuff things up!!
I'm starting to feel that I should not have mentioned the Linux
profile problem, as both responders have focused on that rather than
the problem that I was actually trying to get assistance with ....
trying to get a Profile were *I* wanted it, rather than it going
where, *apparently* , SeaMonkey wants to put it!!
Sharing a profile between Windows and Linux is completely
unsupported. Things like last download dir are stored in it and
will cause problems if Windows finds a Linux path or Linux a path
with a Windows drive.
Moving or duplicating SeaMonkey|Firefox|Thunderbird to and from Linux
and Windows (or Mac) is very easy drag and drop affair. I have don it
countless times.
Sharing a profile dir is an issue regardless of the OS, but pathing
issues is a real problem with dissimilar OSes because the the
prefs.js records paths for some actions.
Thank you, Jonathan, but that's not the problem I'm interested in. I see
you are on WOW64 Windows 7, the same as me. Could you please have a go
at giving yourself a new, test, SeaMonkey profile by selecting
Tools->Switch Profiles->Manage Profiles and then, on the second
screen, give this Profile a Name then Click on the "Choose Folder"
button, pick a new location (i.e. *not* the one suggested by
SeaMonkey) and see if the Location on the "Create Profile Wizard"
screen has changed to the location you had selected??
No need to actually create the Profile (unless you want one), just
cancel your way out of the "Create Profile Wizard" screen.
I'd be very appreciative.
Thank you also, Frank-Rainer. that's now three of us that have had problems.
Frank-Rainer, is it worthwhile me going to Bugzilla and reporting this
or would you and your connections be able to sort it without a Bug Report??
Daniel
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