Ray Davison wrote:
In case someone doubts hat this system works, below is the body of the
first email I received. I still have it. My mail has never been lost.
This is cut and paste so it is not the original formatting.
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First email 2 June 1997
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Regarding whether a version of SM will work with a profile that was
created while a different version was running. The above noted message
was received in Netscape running under OS/2. I have said do not get rid
of an app until you are sure you like the replacement better. I treat
OSs the same way. I install the new OS on another partition. By the
time I got the above noted message I was booting multiple versions of
DOS, W9X and OS/2. My current desktops mostly have WXP and W7 - I have
tried W8 and WX and deleted both.
And all my HDDs are front panel plugin, The first HDD is OSs only. My
OS backups are cloned HDDs and I may have two or three. And then there
are trial OS installations on other HDDs. The point is that is a lot of
OSs using the same profile and mail files.
Changes in the SM app have made changes to the profiles - 1X to 2X being
the most obvious. Whenever I ran a new version of the app I had it use
the profile I had been using with the prior version. SM made whatever
changes were required, even the 1X to 2X.
After SM changed the profile for the newer app I may or may not have
been able to use that profile for an earlier version of the app. I
currently have 2.40, 2.46, 2.48 and 2.50 and am not aware of any issues
using the same profile for all of them.
BUT, all the discussion I have seen here concerns how to maintain
whatever data was in the earlier profile after the new app is running.
In two decades of Mozilla suite and SM I have never needed to do
anything but;
Unzip to a sub-directory to your choice of name and place
Create a shortcut with the run line of the form
H:\SM250-Win\seamonkey.exe -Profilemanager
The above just requires adding a space and
"-Profilemanager" to the run line.
Run shortcut
The above assumes you have already set up you profile(S) with your
choice of location and name and created an entry in Profile manager.
Replacing or adding a version of SM is just not an issue for concern.
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